¡Ukigumo(Shincho Bunko)
¡Futabateishimei / Cho
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[Machine Translation] Shimei's first novel, published in 1887, when the momentum for the creation of new literature was finally beginning to build away from the legacies of Edo literature, astonished the people of the time with its fresh, unanimous style of writing. Ukiun" is considered a pioneering work of modern Japanese fiction that transcended the literary world of the time by precisely depicting the inner anguish of Bunzo Utsumi, a young government official who was brilliant but ignorant of the world and who was the first to portray Japan's intellectual class as human beings.
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