A murderer discovers his true nature, a samurai attempts to meditate, and a dying man bestows his hat on a friend in these surrealistic short stories by a noted Japanese author.
Author Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) was a scholar of British literature and a composer of haiku, kanshi, and fairy tales. His works have had a profound effect on subsequent Japanese writers, and from 1984 to 2004 his portrait appeared on the 1,000-yen note.
