Natsume Sōseki , pen name Sōseki, born Natsume Kin'nosuke , was a Japanese novelist. He is best known for his novels Kokoro, Botchan, I Am a Cat, Kusamakura and his unfinished work Light and Darkness. He was also a scholar of British literature and writer of haiku and kanshi poetry and fairy tales.
Sōseki on 13 September 1912 (day of Emperor Meiji's funeral)
Sōseki as English teacher at Matsuyama Middle School (1896)
Natsume Sōseki's lodgings in Clapham, South London
Sōseki in his study (1906)
Kokoro is a 1914 Japanese novel by Natsume Sōseki, and the final part of a trilogy starting with To the Spring Equinox and Beyond and followed by The Wayfarer. Set in the Meiji era, the novel tells of the acquaintance between a young man and an older man called "Sensei", who holds a secret from his past regarding the death of a friend.
Kokoro