Autumn's Ballerina: The Era of "Botchan" Part 2 By: Jiro Taniguchi / By: Natsuo Sekikawa It was the youth of Mori Ogai, Shintaro Mori. Nay, it was the very youth of modern Japan. In September of the 21st year of Meiji (1888), the Ballerina Elise, chasing after Ogai, disembarked alone at Yokohama Port—between home and the individual, the nation and love, Japan and the West, Ogai's anguish pierces through history and illuminates the present. A masterpiece that won the second Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, a brand new Part 2.