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Natsume Soseki


Japan (1867 - 1916)

Natsume Sseki was the pen name of Natsume Kinnosuke, who is widely considered to be the foremost Japanese novelist of the Meiji Era (18681912). He is commonly referred to as Sseki. 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, Chinese-style poetry, and fairy tales. From 1984 until 2007, his portrait appeared on the front of the Japanese 1000 yen note.
 
 
Novels
   Botchan (1925)
   Kokoro (1941)
   The Three Cornered World (1965)
   The Wayfarer (1967)
   Grass On the Wayside (1969)
   I Am a Cat (1969)
   Light and Dark (1971)
   The Gate (1972)
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   Sanshiro (1977)
   And Then (1978)
   To the Spring Equinox and Beyond (1985)
   The Miner (1988)
   The Heredity of Taste (2004)
   Kusamakura (2008)
   Nowaki (2011)
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Collections
   Ten Nights of Dreams (1974)
   The Tower of London (1992)
   Zen Haiku (poems) (1994)
   Inside My Glass Doors (2002)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The 210th Day (2002)
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