Meiji Literature and Japan’s Most Famous Literary Cat

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English - April 13, 2022 14:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
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In this episode, we’re looking at the Meiji Era of Japanese history and its literature.

The shogunate is replaced.Japan looks outward to the West and inward toward itself.And a man named Natsume Sōseki chronicles it all from the perspective of a stray cat.

Notes and sources are available on the podcast episode webpage.

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