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Soseki, the Past, and the Deeper Sea.
(From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI))
Byline: Paul Anderer
We commonly assume that great writers have something to teach us. This is especially true in countries, like Japan, where the legacy of Confucianism or Neo-Confucianism is strong. Reflecting on Japanese literature written since the Meiji Restoration (completed in 1868), no writer looms with greater stature than Natsume Soseki. Moreover, besides being a novelist, Soseki was a de facto teacher, first at a country school in Matsuyama (Ehime Prefecture), later at the Tokyo Imperial University, which later became the University of Tokyo. And so we might reasonably ask: what does Natsume ...
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