February**Dynamic Incentive Program Ms. Rina Fujita, Professor of Chinese Literature, Faculty of Letters, Kokushikan University, Japan. She is a founding member of the Japanese Guo Moruo Research Association, and more importantly, she is Guo Moruo's granddaughter.
Speaking of Guo Moruo, He had three wives in his lifetime—Zhang Qionghua, Tomiko Sato, and Ms. Yu Liqun. Guo Moruo's ancestral home is Ninghua, Fujian, and his ancestors are small businessmen who followed the Ma Gang to Sichuan from Fujian to do the flax business; Later, they decided to settle in Leshan City, Sichuan Province.
Until Guo Moruo's great-grandfather, the Guo family was already a well-known and wealthy local family. However, it is a pity that when it came to Guo Moruo's grandfather's generation, due to various reasons, the family was in a bad situation, which forced Guo Moruo's father, Guo Chaopei, who originally loved reading, to drop out of school at the age of 15 to go into business.
However, with Guo Chaopei's painstaking efforts, the Guo family gradually "turned the crisis into safety", and Guo Chaopei was more determined to give his children the best education because of the experience of dropping out of school when he was young. As a result, Guo Chaopei, a local businessman, founded a family school in Leshan Shawan, called Suishan Mountain Pavilion, and hired famous teachers to teach.
Not only Guo Moruo, but even Guo Moruo's brothers and sisters have also received a good education. 19-year-old Guo Moruo, his parents arranged for him a wife wearing a small foot wrap, she is Guo Moruo's first wife Zhang Qionghua. Guo Moruo described this marriage as "buying a cat through your pocket, talking about a white cat, but when you open it, it is a black cat".
On the fifth day after Guo Moruo and Zhang Qionghua got married, Guo Moruo quickly left his hometown to study in Japan. Although the two did not officially go through the divorce procedures, they have not been reunited since then. Zhang Qionghua has stayed in her hometown and served Guo Moruo's parents wholeheartedly. In 1939, when Guo Moruo returned to his hometown for funeral, he apologized deeply to Zhang Qionghua, who had been serving his parents.
Zhang Qionghua died in 1980 at the age of 90, and she had no children for the rest of her life. Guo Moruo's second wife is Tomiko Sato, a Japanese. Ms. Tomiko Sato was born in Ohira Village, Kurokawa-ku, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, and is the eldest of eight children.
Tomiko Sato's maternal grandfather was Shosuke Sato, a Japanese nobleman who was made a baron after the Meiji Restoration. He was also the first generation of modern agronomists in Japan, a doctor of agronomy in the United States, and the first president of the former Hokkaido Imperial University.
The reason why Tomiko Sato is surnamed Sato is because her father is a unique Japanese "adopted son-in-law", similar to the Chinese "door-to-door son-in-law", but with a higher status. In Japan, this kind of "son-in-law" can inherit the father-in-law's family name, property, and social resources. Because her father was a pastor, she had the opportunity to study at a boarding school run by a church in Sendai as a teenager.
The reason why she chose to "run away from home" and go to Tokyo to earn a living at the age of 21 was because she did not receive a traditional Japanese education. It was also because of her religious background that she easily found a job at St. Luke's International Hospital, the best church hospital in Tokyo at the time.
Incidentally, as of February 2024, St. Luke's International Hospital remains one of the top 10 well-known hospitals in Japan.
Tomiko Sato's acquaintance with Guo Moruo dates back to 1916, the second year of Tomiko Sato's work at St. Luke's International Hospital. At that time, one of Guo Moruo's friends died in the hospital, and Guo Moruo met Tomiko Sato while asking for his friend's X-ray records.
Subsequently, Guo Moruo launched a fierce pursuit, and soon, Tomiko Sato "fell" under Guo Moruo's enthusiastic pursuit, and the two began to exchange letters. In December 1916, Guo Moruo successfully persuaded Tomiko Sato to leave Tokyo and live with him in Okayama.
Although Tomiko Sato's marriage was opposed by her family, relatives and friends, she still chose to marry Guo Moruo. In December 1917, Tomiko Sato gave birth to his first son, the eldest son Guo Kazuo. Overall, Tomiko Sato has five children for Guo Moruo, including four sons and a daughter. All five children were born in Japan, and they are all eligible to apply for Japanese citizenship under Japanese law.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, Guo Moruo successfully escaped Japan, while Tomiko Sato and her five children did not. Tomiko Sato cut ties with her husband and her parents at the same time, leaving her to raise the five children alone.
Although Tomiko Sato was not wealthy, she made sure that her four schooling children received a good education. The four older children went on to the former Kyoto Imperial University (now Kyoto University) and became experts in the fields of chemistry, aquaculture, architecture, and mathematics.
In addition to this, Tomiko Sato has resisted pressure from the Japanese authorities to naturalize her four adult children as Japanese citizens. She did not want her children to be part of the invasion of their father's country that could be drafted into the army.
After the end of World War II, Tomiko Sato went to China to find Guo Moruo. However, Guo Moruo is married to Ms. Yu Liqun and has always avoided meeting with Ms. Tomiko Sato. Under the arrangement of the relevant departments, Tomiko Sato was placed in Dalian to live, and it was not until Guo Moruo's death in 1978 that she saw her husband in the hospital, whom she had not seen for 41 years.
In 1995, Tomiko Sato died in Shanghai as a Chinese citizen at the age of 101. At the time of her death, she donated her entire savings of 5 million yen to China. Tomiko Sato and Guo Moruo's five children also live and work in China with their mothers. Professor Rina Fujita's introduction can be found on the Kokushikan University website.
The eldest son, Guo Hefu, is a well-known organic chemist and petrochemist in China, and served as the deputy director of the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics. His wife, Tomiko Sato, has been living with him in the country.
The second son, Guo Boxue, has been working in the design company of Shanghai Construction Engineering Bureau since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and has served as the chief engineer of Shanghai Architectural Design and Research Institute.
The third son, Guo Fusheng, works at the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The fourth daughter, Guo Shuyu, worked at Tianjin Foreign Chinese University after the founding of New China. The mentioned Ms. Rina Fujita is her child.
The youngest son, Guo Zhihong, is a famous pianist and was a professor at *** Academy before his retirement.
Rina Fujita, formerly known as Lin Cong, is the child of Guo Moruo's eldest daughter Guo Shuyu, born in Tianjin in 1958. In 1980, she went to Japan to study, and with the help of her grandmother, Tomiko Sato, she became a Japanese citizen and changed her name to Rina Fujita. Currently, she is not only a professor at Kokushikan University in Japan, but also the president of the Guo Moruo International Research Association.
Although Rina Fujita has become a naturalized Japanese citizen, she has always been committed to Sino-Japanese friendship and often takes students to give lectures at universities in China. For example, in 2011, she took 16 students from the Faculty of Literature of Kokushikan University to Shanxi University to give lectures on "Chinese Chinese Poetry Culture" and "The History and Charm of Japanese Chinese Poetry".
The above are some brief introductions of Professor Rina Fujita and her grandfather and grandmother. If there is anything you want to discuss, please leave a message in the comment area.