Soseki

[saw-se-kee]

noun

1. Natsume, Soseki.

Example Sentences

Natsume Soseki taught literature at the University of Tokyo after studying abroad in London, and, when he later became an author, he brilliantly sublimated those very conflicts in his novels.

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At the age of 27, he won the Gunzo Literary Prize, a prestigious Japanese literary prize, for a probing essay on Natsume Soseki, who is regarded among his compatriots as the first major fiction writer of modern Japan.

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To some it represents Soseki’s struggle with the modern world.

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And in Soseki’s story, the woman becomes a flower.

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It’s very similar to Soseki’s dream, in which a woman returns as a flower growing from her own grave.

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