*Sōseki, Natsume: * - "Natsume Kinnosuke (1867-1916) signed his work Sōseke - "stubborn." Like the narrator of "Botchan," he was a city-born Tokyo-ite, who found himself teaching middle school in remote Matsuyama in Shikoku in 1895. He emerged to study English literature in ...

*Sōseki, Natsume: * - "Natsume Kinnosuke (1867-1916) signed his work Sōseke - "stubborn." Like the narrator of "Botchan," he was a city-born Tokyo-ite, who found himself teaching middle school in remote Matsuyama in Shikoku in 1895. He emerged to study English literature in London, become Professor at Tokyo Imperial University, and a successful novelist, beginning with the popular "I Am a Cat" in 1905."