A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR.

“Soseki” Natsume was born in Ushigome, on January 5, 1867. After graduating from Tokyo Imperial University, he taught in the Middle Schools of Matsuyama and Kumamoto. Later he was appointed a professor of Kumamoto No. 5 High School. In 1900 he was ordered to England by the Department of Education to prosecute his studies. On coming home in 1903 he was given a chair of Literature In Tokyo Imperial University.

He resigned his university post in 1907 and immediately accepted a position in the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun newspaper. From about 1909, he began to ail from ulceration of the stomach, and the subsequent seven years he spent in hospital and going to spas for a change of air, until the disease carried him in 1916, he having never recovered fully from its attack. He was in his fiftieth year when he died.

Chronology of Soseki’s works:

Name Year

Miscellaneous:

London Shosoku (London Letters) 1901

London Toh (The Tower of London) 1905

Eijitsu Shohin (Long Day Miscellany) 1909

Critical Essays:

Bungaku-ron (Literature, an essay) 1907

Bungaku Hyoron (Literary Criticisms) 1909

Asahi (Reprints from the Asahi) 1911

Bunten-to Geijutsu (Art and The Department of Education Exhibition of Art) 1912

Novels:

Wagahaiwa Neko-de Aru (I Am A Cat) 1909–1906

Botschan (Botchan) 1906

Nowaki (A Blast Of Fall Wind) 1907

Gubijinso (The Corn-poppy) 1907

Sanshiro (Sanshiro) 1908

Sorekara (Next) 1909

Mon (The Gate) 1910

Higan-sugi Made (Until After the Equinox) 1912

Kokoro (The Heart) 1914

Mei-An (Light and Shade) not finished 1915

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お艶殺し 谷崎潤一郎作

A SPRING TIME CASE

(OTSUYA KOROSHI)

By Jun-ichiro Tanizaki rendered by Zenchi Iwado.

戲曲 井伊大老の死 中村吉藏作

THE DEATH OF II TAIRO

(DRAMA)

(Ii Tairo No Shi)

By Kichizo Nakamura rendered by Mock Joya.

草枕 夏目漱石作

UNHUMAN TOUR

(KUSAMAKURA)

By Soseki Natsume rendered by Kazutomo Takahashi.

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