Towards the beginning of this work, the narrator recites, "We look before and after / And pine for what is not," after a lark reminds him of Shelley and proves that spring is not completely lazy. Later, the narrator envisions himself painting Ophelia drowning herself before finding a naked woman standing in front of him, and he had first heard about that woman from the packhorse driver Gembei. This novel's narrator visits Kagami pond, where he learns that a girl had drowned herself, and he often converses with the abbot Daitetsu. At the end of this novel, the narrator accompanies the family of a hotel proprietor in the hot spring town of Nakoi to the departure of Kyuichi Shioda for the war i
Towards the beginning of this work, the narrator recites, "We look before and after / And pine for what is not," after a lark reminds him of Shelley and proves that spring is not completely lazy. Later, the narrator envisions himself painting Ophelia drowning herself before finding a naked woman standing in front of him, and he had first heard about that woman from the packhorse driver Gembei. This novel's narrator visits Kagami pond, where he learns that a girl had drowned herself, and he often converses with the abbot Daitetsu. At the end of this novel, the narrator accompanies the family of a hotel proprietor in the hot spring town of Nakoi to the departure of Kyuichi Shioda for the war in Manchuria, which is also the destination of O-Nami's ex-husband. For 10 points, name this novel about a Japanese painter, written by Natsume Soseki.,
Towards the beginning of this work, the narrator recites, "We look before and after / And pine for what is not," after a lark reminds him of Shelley and proves that spring is not completely lazy.
The Three Cornered World [or Kusamakura]