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Kusamakura: The Three-Cornered World
Hardcover
Series: The Northlume Library
Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $24.00
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ISBN13: 9798330336104
Publisher: Jvb Atelier
Published: Aug 8 2026
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Jvb Atelier
Published: Aug 8 2026
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A young painter climbs into the mountains determined to leave the human world behind - to meet everything he finds, even sorrow, even beauty, as though it were only a picture, and to feel nothing at all. What follows is less a story than a spell: hot springs and misted peaks, an old inn, a barber, and a woman glimpsed like a figure in a scroll.
Natsume Sōseki called Kusamakura (1906) his haiku novel - a book meant, he said, to leave an impression of beauty and nothing more. Quiet, funny, and unexpectedly deep, it is the gentlest and strangest of the works that made him the foremost novelist of modern Japan.
- Presented here in Kazutomo Takahashi's public-domain 1927 translation, freshly typeset in EB Garamond and Marcellus behind an original mixed-media cover illustration by JVB Atelier Designs.
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