... in April of 1991 devoted exclusively to Natsume Soseki’s Kokoro (HeardMind) (1914).The venue (a land once occupied by Japan) prompted me to consider the meaning of such a conference focused on perhaps the canonical work in modern...

... on certain dichotomies at the expense of others. As James Fujii has pointed out about another important Meiji writer, Nat- sume Soseki, scholars attend to Saseki in England, not to Soseki in Korea or Manchuria.3 Similarly, it is common...

... . Shintai shōyō sakubun (New Style Commercial Documents) . Tokyo : Keiseisha . Takurō Nakamura . 1919 . Jyōshi shintegamibun (New Epistolary Writing for Women) . Tokyo : Tegami Kenkyū Kai . Sōseki Natsume . [1912–13] 1994 . Kōjin (The Wayfarer). Vol. 8 of Sōseki zenshū...

... of Japanese literature. Whereas, before the war, Japanese writers such as Natsume Soseki or Kawabata Yasunari often depicted female characters as oases of nurturing tenderness for their suffering male counterparts, recent works by male writers such as those...

... to family narratives and then reliving the Meiji period while writing Soseki and His Age during the 1970s and subsequently a revised version in the 1990s. I would suggest that his profound textual engagement with the Meiji era and the postwar age...

... Japanese Prose Narrative (Berke- ley: University of California Press, 1993), 134-135, 143; James A. Fujii, “Writing Out Asia: Modernity, Canon, and Natsume Soseki’s Kokoro,”positions I, no. I (1993): 208-2209, 212. 56...