A portrait of Natsume Sōseki, Japan’s most highly regarded modern author, 150 years after his birth. Skilled in both the traditional learning of classical Chinese and the newly fashionable English, ...

The American writer Ernest Hemingway once compared writers to boxers, amusingly speculating who would beat whom in a bout. Hemingway, the master of the short story, believed he could beat Tolstoy over ...

No Japanese person could be unaware of Natsume Sōseki, the author of *I Am a Cat* and *Young Master*, whose portrait graced the 1,000 yen note from 1984 to 2007. Perhaps for this reason, in a 2000 ...

Untitled (December 12, 1897) Turning on my heels, I left the Imperial Palace. Outside the gates, I leaned against my sword— as a last farewell . . . Now where I am in Higo Province, far beneath the ...

Sōseki Natsume and Chiroru Kobato, trans. from the Japanese by Zack Davisson. Tuttle, $14.99 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-4-8053-1657-3 Mangaka Chiroru makes his American debut in this adaptation of ...