Books | How the visual arts shaped Japan's modern literature Nov 4, 2017
Natsume Soseki's Pre-Raphaelite dreams
by Damian Flanagan
In 1900, the future novelist Natsume Soseki — then a scholar of English literature — arrived in London to commence two years of study abroad. Back in Japan, his best friend, the renowned haiku poet Masaoka Shiki, had — as explained in the first ...