Natsume Sōseki

Natsume Kinnosuke, who wrote under the pen name Sōseki, was born in 1867 in Edo, which became Tokyo the next year. He had a troubled childhood and was given up for adoption twice before returning to his family. He studied Chinese classics and then English literature at Tokyo Imperial University. He taught English at schools in Matsuyama and Kumamoto, and from 1900 to 1902 the Japanese government sent him to study in London, where he was lonely and unhappy. On his return he lectured on English literature at Tokyo Imperial University. His comic novel I Am a Cat (1905), narrated by a cat who observes its master's household, made him famous, and Botchan (1906), about a hot-tempered young teacher from Tokyo working in a country school, became one of the most widely read Japanese novels. In 1907 he gave up teaching to write for the Asahi newspaper. His later novels, including Sanshirō and Kokoro (1914), explore loneliness and the conflict between tradition and modern life. He suffered from stomach ulcers and died in Tokyo in 1916.

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