His best-known work sees [?]
This author wrote about two friends climing Mount Aso in The 210th Day and collected a series of vignettes in his Ten Nights of Dreams, while his novel The Miner is discussed by Oshima and Kafka in a Haruki Murakami work. One of his works sees the principal Badger manipulated by Red Shirt, who gets beaten up by Porcupine and the title character, a math teacher on Shikoku. The narrator of another of his works is finally able to paint O-Nami Shioda after she gains compassion. His best-known work sees [?] Mr. Sneaze attempt to arrange the marriage of Opula Goldfield and Avalon Coldmoon before its narrator drowns in a water barrel. For 10 points, identify this Meiji-era author of Kokoro, Botchan, The Three-Cornered World, and I Am a Cat.
This author wrote about two friends climing Mount Aso in The 210th Day and collected a series of vignettes in his Ten Nights of Dreams, while his novel The Miner is discussed by Oshima and Kafka in a Haruki Murakami work.
{Natsume Soseki} [accept either underlined portion and in either order; {also} accept {Natsume Kinnosuke}]