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3 unusual facts about Natsume Sōseki


Iyo Railway

Iyo Railway also operates the Botchan Ressha, diesel-powered replicas of the original Iyotetsu locomotives, well-known from Natsume Sōseki's famous 1906 novel, Botchan.

Nakamura Yoshikoto

He attended the First Tokyo Middle School (now Hibiya High School), where one of his classmates and close friends was the future author Natsume Sōseki.

Red bean paste

In Natsume Sōseki's classic novel I Am a Cat, Prof. Sneeze is addicted to red bean jam, on which his wife blames both his dyspepsia and the family's unaffordable food bills.


Grass on the Wayside

Although most of his novels reflected his life, this novel really illustrated a different side to Natsume Sōseki because the novel had a sense of realism to it.

Shigeo Iwanami

The following year, he assisted Natsume Soseki in publishing Kokoro, launching both Natsume’s career as a novelist and his own career as a publisher.

Tomishige Rihei

He took photographs of the novelist Natsume Sōseki, Hannah Riddell (who first built Kumamoto's first leprosy hospital), Nogi Maresuke (one of the most famous generals in Japan), Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa (who learned photography under Tomishige), Viscount Kawakami Sōroku, Kodama Gentarō and Lafcadio Hearn (a writer).


see also

Kairo

Kairo-kō, a 1905 novel by Japanese author Natsume Sōseki