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Kusamakura

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Author : Natsume Soseki
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2008-01-29

Kusamakura written by Natsume Soseki and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-29 with Fiction categories.

A stunning new English translation—the first in more than forty years—of a major novel by the father of modern Japanese fiction Natsume Soseki's Kusamakura—meaning “grass pillow”—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 Soseki'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.

Three Cornered World

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Author : Natsume Suseki
language : en
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Release Date : 1988-11-01

Three Cornered World written by Natsume Suseki and has been published by Regnery Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-11-01 with Fiction categories.

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Kusamakura

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Author : Natsume Soseki
language : en
Publisher: Digireads.Com
Release Date : 2013-01-01

Kusamakura written by Natsume Soseki and has been published by Digireads.Com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-01 with Fiction categories.

Kusamakura which literally translates into "grass pillow" is a common Japanese phrase used in poetry to signify a journey. Considering that Natsume Soseki's novel "Kusamakura" is the story of an artist who retreats to the mountains where he stays at a remote, almost deserted hotel, the title would seem apropos. While there the artist becomes intrigued by the hotel's mysterious hostess, O-Nami, who reminds him of the female in a famous painting. Described by the author as a haiku styled novel the book takes on what should be considered as an experimental style. "Kusamakura" is a combination of musings, poetry and descriptions of our nameless artist. Numerous references are made to writers, poets, and other artists as the narrator meditates on art and the artist's position in society. "Kusamakura" might be considered as a philosophical treatise on aesthetics narrated in the form of a story, certainly as an intriguing early work by an author who would be regarded by some as Japan's greatest ever.

Kusamakura

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Author : Natsume Sōseki
language : en
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Release Date : 2024-05-31T16:43:15Z

Kusamakura written by Natsume Sōseki and has been published by Standard Ebooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-31T16:43:15Z with Fiction categories.

Walking along a mountain path towards a remote hot springs hotel, our unnamed protagonist muses on his theory of “unhumanity” and his hopes that it will break him out of his creative block. On arrival, the town itself has plenty of unhumanity on display, but while poems on those subjects spring easily to mind, painting still eludes him. Will the mysterious Nami-san, the daughter of the hotel owner, be the catalyst that unlocks that frustratingly out-of-reach art? Natsume Sōseki was already a household name in Japan after his previous novels I Am a Cat and Botchan, but it was the success of Kusamakura that allowed him to give up his role as a professor of English literature at Tokyo Imperial University to focus on writing. Kusamakura translates to English directly as “grass pillow,” which for the Japanese reader has a connotation of a poetic wandering; for this edition Takahashi Kazutomo added the subtitle “Unhuman Tour” to bring the same feeling to the translation. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Kusamakura

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Author : Natsume Soseki
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2008-01-29

Kusamakura written by Natsume Soseki and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-29 with Fiction categories.

Kusamakura

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Author : Soseki Natsume
language : ja
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2019-02-11

Kusamakura written by Soseki Natsume and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-11 with Fiction categories.

From Wikipedia: Kusamakura (__ lit. "grass pillow") is a Japanese novel published in 1906 by Natsume S_seki. It tells the story of an artist who retreats to the mountains where he stays at a remote, almost deserted hotel. There he becomes intrigued by the mysterious hostess, O-Nami, who reminds him of John Millais' painting Ophelia.

Unhuman Tour Kusamakura

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Author : Soseki Natsume
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
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Unhuman Tour Kusamakura written by Soseki Natsume and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.

KINNOSUKE NATSUME, better known by his pen-name “Soseki,” was one of, if not, greatest fiction writers, modern Japan has produced. A man of solid university education unlike many another of the fraternity, he established a school of his own, in point of originality in style, and what is more important, in the angle from which he observed human affairs. More points of difference about him from others were the complete absence in his case of romantic elements and adversities, almost always inseparable from the early life of literary geniuses, and the sudden blazing into fame from obscurity, except as a popular school teacher and then a university professor, with some partiality for the “hokku” school of poetry. Soseki Natsume was born in January, 1867, a third son of an old family in Kikui-cho, Tokyo. His education after a primary school course took a deviation, for some years, into the old-fashioned study of Chinese classics. It was probably then that he laid foundation, perhaps unknown to himself, of the development of his literary talent, that later blossomed out so picturesquely; and he was different, also, in this respect from the later Meiji era writers, who went, many of them, through a Christian mission school, and were all under the influence of Western literature. In 1884, our future novelist entered the Yobimon College, intending to become an architect; but later changing his mind he took a course in the Literature Department of Tokyo Imperial University, from which he graduated in 1892. While in the university, Soseki formed a close friendship with Shiki Masaoka, which lasted until the latter’s death separated them in 1904. Shiki Masaoka was the greatest figure in the revival of hokku poetry in rejuvenated Japan, and Soseki’s association with him accounts for the novelist’s mastery of that branch of literature. After finishing his post-graduate course in the university in 1895, Kinnosuke Natsume taught successively in Matsuyama Middle School in Iyo, and the Fifth High School in Kumamoto, making no name particularly for himself except as a bright, promising scholar. He took a wife unto himself in 1896, and was four years later sent by the Government to England to study English literature. In three years he returned home to be appointed Lecturer in Tokyo Imperial University. About this time his “London Letters” in Shiki Masaoka’s Hokku magazine, the Hototogisu, began to attract attention; but it was not till the publication of the first book of maiden work “I Am A Cat”, that he suddenly entered the temple of fame. That was in 1905. The “Cat” with its perfect novelty of conception, style, study of human nature, etc., made him, at once, a star of first magnitude in the literary firmament, and from that time on, for the next five years, his productions, long and short, followed in a constant stream, including “Botchan” (Innocent in Life); “Kusamakura” (Unhuman Tour); “Sanshiro”; “Kofu” (The Miner); “Hinageshi” (The Corn-poppy) and many others, some, perhaps many, of which are assured an immortal life.

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