Books / Reviews | How the visual arts shaped Japan's modern literature Sep 30, 2017

How the visual arts shaped Japan's modern literature

by Damian Flanagan

Early on in Natsume Soseki's 1908 campus novel "Sanshiro" — one of the most important expositions of the inter-connectedness of visual and literary art ever written — a young scientist, Nonomiya, looks up at a long, thin, white cloud floating diagonally in the sky. "Do ...