The Wayfarer (Kojin)
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The Wayfarer is a novel by Japanese author Natsume Sōseki
. It was serialized in Asahi Shimbun
newspaper from December 6, 1912 to November 5, 1913. The novel has been translated into English by Beongcheon Yu
.
Natsume Soseki
, born ', is widely considered to be the foremost Japanese novelist of the Meiji period . He is best known for his novels Kokoro, Botchan, I Am a Cat and his unfinished work Light and Darkness. He was also a scholar of British literature and composer of haiku, Chinese-style poetry, and fairy tales...
. It was serialized in Asahi Shimbun
Asahi Shimbun
The is the second most circulated out of the five national newspapers in Japan. Its circulation, which was 7.96 million for its morning edition and 3.1 million for its evening edition as of June 2010, was second behind that of Yomiuri Shimbun...
newspaper from December 6, 1912 to November 5, 1913. The novel has been translated into English by Beongcheon Yu
Beongcheon Yu
Beongcheon Yu is the translator of Natsume Sōseki's novel The Wayfarer and author of a critical study on Soseki. He has also written studies of Lafcadio Hearn. Yu was born in Korea in 1925. He attended the First Higher School in Tokyo,and received his BA from Seoul National University in 1948...
.
External links
- The complete text of Kojin in Japanese.