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Table of Contents

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PENGUIN CLASSICS

Title Page

Copyright Page

Introduction

Acknowledgements

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CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 8

CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 10

CHAPTER 11

CHAPTER 12

CHAPTER 13

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Notes

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KUSAMAKURA

NATSUME SOSEKI (1867-1916), one of Japan’s most influential modern writers, is widely considered the foremost novelist of the Meiji era (1868-1914). Born Natsume Kinnosuke in Tokyo, he graduated from Tokyo University in 1893 and then taught high school English. He went to England on a Japanese government scholarship, and when he returned to Japan, he lectured on English literature at Tokyo University and began his writing career with the novel I Am a Cat. In 1908 he gave up teaching and became a ful -time writer. He wrote fourteen novels, including Botchan and Kokoro, as wel as haiku, poems in the Chinese style, academic papers on literary theory, essays, and autobiographical sketches. His work enjoyed wide popularity in his lifetime and secured him a permanent place in Japanese literature.

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MEREDITH MCKINNEY holds a Ph. D. in medieval Japanese literature from the Australian National University in Canberra, where she teaches at the Japan Centre. She taught in Japan for twenty years and now lives near Braidwood, New South Wales. Her other translations include Ravine and Other Stories by Furui Yoshikichi, The Tale of Saigyo, and, for Penguin Classics, The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon.

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This translation first published in Penguin Books 2008

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Translation and introduction copyright © Meredith McKinney, 2008

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Natsume, Soseki, 1867-1916.

[Kusamakura. English]

Kusamakura / Natsume Soseki ; translated with an introduction by Meredith McKinney.

p. cm. —(Penguin classics)

eISBN : 978-1-101-09755-7

1. McKinney, Meredith, 1950- II. Title.

PL812. A8K813 2008

895. 6’342—dc22 2007024784

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