The novel Wild Geese is set during this period, as is a novel narrated by the pet of the teacher Mr. Sneaze.
Marriage norms during this historical period are depicted in a story about a beautiful commoner trying to divorce a bureaucrat, titled "The Thirteenth Night." Habits of name-dropping common in this period are ridiculed by a prankster aesthete who insistently orders the made-up dish "moat-bells" instead of meatballs at a restaurant with dyspeptic friend who takes Taka-diastase. Social change during this period is depicted in a novel in which a moneylender's mistress falls in love with a medical student, who throws a rock that kills one of the title birds. The constant bullshit-spewing of (*) Waverhouse and Avalon Coldmoon is witnessed by the title character of a novel set during this period who gets drunk and drowns in a clay pot. The novel Wild Geese is set during this period, as is a novel narrated by the pet of the teacher Mr. Sneaze. For 10 points, the novel I Am A Cat by Natsume Soseki is set during what era of history, including a war where Japan took Port Arthur?
Marriage norms during this historical period are depicted in a story about a beautiful commoner trying to divorce a bureaucrat, titled "The Thirteenth Night.
Meiji period [or Meiji restoration; prompt on less specific answers like "the 19th century"]