About the Author: SÅseki Natsume
Natsume SÅseki (å¤ç›® 漱石, February 9, 1867 – December 9, 1916), born Natsume Kinnosuke (å¤ç›® 金之助) was a Japanese novelist of the Meiji period (1868–1912). He is best known for his novels "Kokoro", "Botchan", "I Am a Cat" and his unfinished work "Light and Darkness". He was also a scholar of British literature and composer of haiku, kanshi, and fairy tales. From 1984 until 2004, his portrait appeared on the front of the Japanese 1000 yen note. In Japan, he is often considered the greatest writer in modern Japanese history. He has had a profound effect on almost all important Japanese writers since.
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SÅseki Natsume, Meredith McKinney
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Paperback, Published in Jul 2008 by Penguin Classics
ISBN10: 0143105191 | ISBN13: 9780143105190
Page count: 152
A stunning new translation—the first in more than forty years—of a major novel by the father of modern Japanese fiction
Natsume SÅseki's Kusamakura follows its nameless young artist-narrator on a meandering walking tour of the mountains. At the inn at a hot spring resort, he has a series of mysterious encounters with Nami, the lovely young daughter of the establishment. Nami, or "beauty," is the center of this elegant novel, the still point around which the artist moves and the enigmatic subject of SÅseki's word painting. In the author's words, Kusamakura is "a haiku-style novel, that lives through beauty." Written at a time when Japan was opening its doors to the rest of the world, Kusamakura turns inward, to the pristine mountain idyll and the taciturn lyricism of its courtship scenes, enshrining the essence of old Japan in a work of enchanting literary nostalgia.
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