However, Soseki laid the foundation for modern literature in Japan, and should be added to any collection of world literature. At the time, his unassuming first-person narrative style was something fresh and somewhat unprecedented. Soseki is sometimes thought to be the new voice of the changing literary style of the 20th century. Soseki's style of writing is also something of a renaissance in this deeply psychological novel. Sensei had been blaming himself for K's suicide his complete life and decided that the only way to avenge his suicide was the commit suicide himself. He was a scholar of British literature and a composer of haiku, Chinese-style poetry, and fairy tales. However, Sensei's ambition at asking for her hand in marriage first caused K such angst that K killed himself. Natsume Soseki is widely considered to be the foremost Japanese novelist of the Meiji period (1868-1912). His letter tells of his friendship with K and that they both loved the same woman. While there, Sensei finally sends a long letter disclosing his past and telling him the reason why by the time the young man will have made it back to Tokyo, he will have killed himself. After he graduates from college, he returns home to his dying father.

They become friends, yet Sensei's reluctance to tell about his past and hard-to-crack exterier makes it difficult for the young man to learn Sensei's lessons. As well as his works of fiction, his essays, haiku, and kanshi have been influential and are popular even today. Kokoro is the story of a man a young man in his final year of college who meets Sensei, a reclusive old man living in Tokyo with his wife. Natsume Soseki (1867-1916), one of Japan's most influential modern writers, is widely considered the foremost novelist of the Meiji era (1868-1914) and a master of psychological fiction. In fact, Soseki is so highly esteemed, that his portrait was used on the 1000-yen note. Kokoro, by Natsume Soseki is a must have in Japanese literature.

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