Shibue Io was the daughter of a merchant family in 19th-century Japan and wife of a scholar-doctor of the samurai class. This book draws on the biography of her husband, written by Mori Ogai, to tell her story, and the story of her society, and her times.
Two writers, Natsume Soseki and Shimazaki Toson, invented the modern Japanese novel. Soseki is the eccentric novelist who appears on the 10,000 yen note. His contemporary, Shimazaki Toson, brought to Japanese fiction a lyricism previously seen only in poetry and nature writing. As revered today as they were during their own lifetimes, these two ...
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