A young painter walks into the mountains hoping to see the world with the detachment of art, free of human emotion. At a hot-spring inn he meets the strange, unsettling daughter of the house, and his reflections on poetry, painting and Eastern and Western aesthetics fill this 1927 translation of Sōseki’s Kusamakura.
A lyrical, meditative novel by modern Japan’s greatest novelist, in its first English version. Download the free EPUB.