Background
Fujimura was born in Hokkaidō.
藤村 操
Fujimura was born in Hokkaidō.
Fujimura graduated from middle school in Sapporo, and then relocated to Tokyo where he attended a preparatory school for entry into Tokyo Imperial University. His grave is at Aoyama Cemetery in Tokyo. The story was soon sensationalized in contemporary newspapers, and was commented upon by the famed writer Natsume Sōseki, an English teacher at Fujimura"s high school.
Later Sōseki wrote on his death in Kusamakura.