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Natsume Soseki
Deals with the friendship between a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls Sensei.
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Features a portrayal of an artist who opposes convention and logic, and shuns emotional involvement. This book is a haikuesque novel infused with the author’s musings on art and nature.
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A nineteenth-century Japanese novel concerned with man’s loneliness in the modern world.
Previously titled: Light and darkness: an unfinished novel in parts in a Japanese serial publication.
Doris G. Bargen
On September 13, 1912, the day of Emperor Meiji’s funeral, General Nogi Maresuke committed ritual suicide. The revered military hero’s wife joined in his act of junshi. The violence of…
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Marvin Marcus
Much has been written about Natsume Soseki (1867-1916), one of Japan’s most celebrated writers. Known primarily for his novels, he also published a large and diverse body of short personal…
This English version of
(Wagahai-wa neko de aru: I Am a Cat), Chapters I and II, written by Natsume Soseki, pseudonym of Natsume Kinnosuke (1867-1916), and translated by Kan-ichi Ando…
First publication in English of Soseki’s travels through Manchuria on the then recently-acquired South Manchurian Railway. 6-week travelogue including boat from Osaka to Dairen, railway up the Liaodong Peninsular to…
Reiko Abe Auestad
This book takes the unique approach of combining cognitive approaches with more established close-reading methods in analyzing a selection of Japanese novels.
This is the second volume of Annotated Japanese Literary Gems, which makes available representative examples of Japanese short stories and novellas from Meiji to the present. This multi-volume set of…
Ten Nights’ Dreams (, Yume Juya) is a classic written work from the Japanese master Natsume Soseki. Originally published in 1908, it announced the emergence in Japanese literature of…
A rediscovered Japanese modernist classic, translated by renowned Murakami translator Jay Rubin and with a new introduction by Murakami himself.
