Also, as his grandfather Hakusen had died of disease the previous year at Tsuchiyama-juku Station on the Tokaido road, his grandmother was particularly delighted with Ogai's birth, looking at him as reincarnation of his grandfather, and it is said that later, whenever he safely came back to Japan from his study abroad or the front she would shed silent tears.
また前年、祖父の白仙が東海道の土山宿で病死したため、とくに祖母は鴎外を白仙の生まれ変わりといって喜び、後年、鴎外が留学と出征から無事帰国するたびに、はらはらと涙を落としたという。