The Gate

Natsume Sōseki · 1910 CE · Novel · Japanese · Modernist

Sōsuke and Oyone keep house at the foot of a cliff in Tokyo on a clerk's salary, childless and careful with each other, because they came together in a way that cost him his studies and his friends. When the man they wronged is about to reappear, Sōsuke goes up to a Zen temple in Kamakura to ask to be let through. The quietest of Sōseki's novels, and the last panel of the trilogy.

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  Natsume Sōseki · 1909 CE · Novel

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