A rash, honest young man from Tokyo takes a post teaching mathematics at a middle school in a small country town. He nicknames his colleagues — Red Shirt, Badger, Clown, Porcupine — and soon finds himself tangled in pranks by the pupils, staff-room intrigue and a dispute over a fiancée, with only his old nurse Kiyo’s letters for comfort.
One of the most widely read Japanese novels, comic and sharp, here in Yasotaro Mori’s 1918 translation. Download the free EPUB.