Yume Jūya (Ten Nights of Dreams): The Tenth Night
【Masterpieces of Modern Japanese Literature(53)】
By Sōseki Natsume
Narrated by Nana Nagao
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A short story by Sōseki Natsume
“On the seventh night after Shōtarō had been carried off by a woman, he wandered back home. Suddenly he came down with a fever and collapsed into bed, or so Kensan came to inform me. Shōtarō was the handsomest young man in the neighborhood, and an extremely good and honest fellow. He had only one indulgence: wearing a Panama hat, he would sit in the evening at the front of the fruit shop and watch the faces of women passing by. He was endlessly fascinated by them. Aside from this, he had no remarkable traits. When few women passed, he would gaze at the fruit instead of the street. The fruit included a variety of things: peaches, apples, loquats, and so on.”
Author : Sōseki Natsume
Narrator : Nana Nagao
Produced by：Koé no Shoten
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Release Date：2025/
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
1867 – 1916
Born in Babashita, Ushigome, Edo (present-day Kikui-chō, Shinjuku, Tokyo). His real name was Kinnosuke. After graduating from the Department of English Literature at the Imperial University, he taught English at Matsuyama Middle School and the Fifth High School before studying in Britain. Upon his return to Japan, he became a lecturer at Tokyo Imperial University. In 1905, he made his literary debut with I Am a Cat. He went on to write many masterpieces, including Botchan, Kusamakura, Sanshirō, Sorekara (And Then), Mon (The Gate), Higan sugi made, Kōjin (The Wayfarer), Kokoro, Michikusa, and Meian (Light and Darkness). He is regarded as one of the foremost literary figures of modern Japan.