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Natsume Soseki's Matsuyama

Dogo Onsen, Masaoka Shiki, and the Enduring Legacy of "Botchan"

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Hope Anderson
Mar 26, 2022
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Natsume Soseki (l) and Masaoka Shiki talking literature in Matsuyama, 1895 (Diorama from the Shiki Memorial Museum. All Photos by Hope Anderson)

A week after my day at Tokyo University I arrived in Matsuyama, the city that inspired Natsume Soseki’s comic novel Botchan (“Young Master”). I had come from Naoshima, the Inland Sea art island, via Takamatsu, w…

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