Soseki Natsume

• Sep-2024

"Filled with light, satirical touches." -- Donald KeeneA modern classic, Botchan rivals Soseki's famous I Am a Cat in popularity in Japan. This is the funniest of Soseki's novels, a penetrating portrait of a young man's quest to survive the suffoca...

• Apr-2024

A timeless psychological study of a young man's deep alienation from society.Set in the early 20th century, Kokoro opens with a chance encounter on a beach near Tokyo that irrevocably links a young student to a man he simply calls Sensei (Teacher). I...

• Oct-2021

Japan's beloved literary masterpiece brought to life in manga form!Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle-class Japanese society in early 20th century Tokyo. Written with biting wit and sardonic pers...

• 1916

Very Good in Wraps; 8vo; Paperback; 397 pages; A Perigree Book; 1982; First Perigree Printing; Subtitled: An Unfinished Novel; Translated from the Japanese, with a critical essay by V. H. Viglielmo; Edge wear and rubbing to wraps and spine; Creasing ...

• 1915

Grass on the Wayside is an autobiographical novel written by Soseki Natsume in 1915. It encompasses a short period in Natsume’s life between 1903 and 1905, which corresponds to the later part of Japan’s Meiji era (1868-1912). By 1903, Japan had u...

• 1915

Soseki’s acutely observed recollections of his unique experience as a Japanese scholar in Victorian London. The spectacle of a Japanese visitor to Victorian London was a rare one, and Natusme Soseki's observations contain unique snaptshots ...

• 1914

"The subject of 'Kokoro,' which can be translated as 'the heart of things' or as 'feeling,' is the delicate matter of the contrast between the meanings the various parties of a relationship attach to it. In the course of this exploration, Soseki bril...

• 1913

• 1910

One of the central masterpieces of twentieth-century Japanese literature The Gate describes the everyday world of the humble clerk Sosuke and his wife Oyone, living in quiet obscurity in a house at the bottom of a cliff. Seemingly cursed with the ...

• 1909

A stirring and insightful novel from an author Japan Quarterly calls "a Japanese writer of genius."From beloved author Soseki Natsume, And Then tells the story of Daisuke, a man in his twenties who is struggling with his personal purpose and identity...

• 1908

The Miner is the most daringly experimental and least well known novel of the great Meiji novelist Natsume Soseki. An absurdist novel about the indeterminate nature of human personality, The Miner, written in 1908, was in many was a precursor to t...

• 1908

'Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head. Don't ever surrender yourself - not to Japan, not to anything' A shy, unworldly young student has his eyes opened to Tokyo's bustling metropolis, in this delicate, bitter-sweet work of innocence and...

• 1907

Shirai Dôya is a man of letters, a man of principles. His principles sometimes stand in the way of his teaching career, but his writing allows him to openly address "today's youth" with stern conviction-although he is still unable to make a comforta...

• 1906

In Soseki Natsume's 1906 novel Botchan, the title character moves from the modern Tokyo to the more traditional city of Matsuyama to pursue a position teaching mathematics. Botchan interacts with a scheming colleague and mischievous students, and the...

• 1906

"A nonchalant string of anecdotes and wisecracks, told by a fellow who doesn't have a name, and has never caught a mouse, and isn't much good for anything except watching human beings in action…" -- The New Yorker Written over the course of 1904-1...

• 1906

From Wikipedia: Kusamakura (__ lit. grass pillow) is a Japanese novel published in 1906 by Natsume S_seki. It tells the story of an artist who retreats to the mountains where he stays at a remote, almost deserted hotel. There he becomes intrigued...