Natsume Sōseki

In my last blog post, I quoted Miyoshi as having said that “Japanese society does not, in short, promote the necessary condition for...

UCSD academic Masao Miyoshi wrote in Accomplices of Silence regarding the lack of individualism inherent in Japanese culture: “The old...

Besides portraying the sociological effects of Japan’s modernization, Sōseki also comments on modern Japan’s new value system, which has...

Sensei describes himself as initially having a “generous nature”, but with a streak of suspicion that led him “not only to suspect the...

K, who comes from a family of Buddhist priests, is adopted by a physician’s family that sponsors his education so that he can become a...

Leading up to Kokoro’s publication in 1914, Japan had emerged as the sole Asian imperial great power. It invaded and colonized...

Jay Rubin, a former Harvard academic and Japanese translator, said of Sōseki: “Natsume Sōseki is two writers: the popular comedian […]...

#bibliography #workscited #attributionofsources Fukuchi, I. (1993). Kokoro and `the Spirit of Meiji'. Monumenta Nipponica, 48(4),...