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It is well known that Akutagawa has read Ogai's historical novels ‘many times and repeatedly for fun’ before entering the literary world. I tried to solve the clue mainly about the Ogai literary works to see why Akutaga was interested in Ogai's novel. There was a literary departure from the two writers who shared the childhood sentiment with the Sumida River as the ‘home of the heart’. The scenes of the Sumida River depicted in Ogai's literature are shown throughout the literature, including the early works of Akutagawa. The literary sentiment projected on the Sumida River was more conscious of Akutagawa than Ogai. Akutagawa expresses intentionally as ‘Sumida River’ and ‘Okawa’, expressing ‘resistance to vague life’ and ‘death’. For Akutagawa, the Sumida River was not merely a sanction, but rather a literary element that reflected the artist's emotions. Thus, Akutagawa's literary sentiment was depicted darker than Ogai. The Sumida River of Ogai Literature was the place where the background and events of the characters were developed and called Akagawa's “Okawa”, expressing the artist's dark heart, and Akutagawa's literary sentiment was darker than Ogai. The Sumida River area was a place where Ogai and Akutagawa spent their childhood as a starting point for writers, not simply materials in literature. Akutagawa, who shared Ogai's literary sentiment, appeared in novels, plays, essays, and so on. The environmental element of childhood served as the emotion of the artist, which is a literary context that identifies the author's genealogy of Ogai and Akutagawa. It is not surprising that the artist's childhood environment influenced emotions and this appeared in literature, but it became an important keyword in understanding both writers' literature.