![]() ![]() A childless couple, Shiobara Masanosuke and his wife, adopted him in 1868 and raised him until the age of nine, when the couple divorced. Having five children and a toddler had created family insecurity and was in some ways a disgrace to the Natsume family. When he was born, he already had five siblings. ![]() Sōseki began his life as an unwanted child, born to his mother late in her life, forty years old and his father then fifty-three. He was a descendant of Natsume Yoshinobu, a Sengoku period samurai and retainer of Tokugawa Ieyasu. His father, a powerful and wealthy nanushi, owned all land from Ushigome to Takadanobaba in Edo and handled most civil lawsuits at his doorstep. ![]() Natsume Kin'nosuke was born on 9 February 1867 in the town of Babashita, Ushigome, Edo (present Kikui, Shinjuku, Tokyo), the fifth son of village head ( nanushi) Natsume Kohē Naokatsu and his wife Chie. From 1984 until 2004, his portrait appeared on the front of the Japanese 1,000 yen note. He was also a scholar of British literature and writer of haiku, kanshi, and fairy tales. ![]() He is best known around the world for his novels Kokoro, Botchan, I Am a Cat, Kusamakura and his unfinished work Light and Darkness. Natsume Sōseki ( 夏目 漱石, 9 February 1867 – 9 December 1916), born Natsume Kin'nosuke ( 夏目 金之助), was a Japanese novelist. ![]()
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