Souseki Natsume
夏目漱石
Voice actorBorn February 9, 1867Edo, Musashi Province, (Currently Shinjuku, Tokyo), Japan
About
Souseki Natsume, born as Kinnosuke Natsume (夏目金之助), is widely considered to be the foremost Japanese novelist of the Meiji Era (1868-1912). He is best known for his novels Kokoro, Botchan, I Am a Cat, and his unfinished work Light and Darkness. He was also a scholar of British literature and composer of haiku, Chinese-style poetry, and fairy tales. From 1984 until 2007, his portrait appeared on the front of the Japanese 1000 yen note.