Vol. 3June 2026
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The Soil

長塚節 · Japanese

A patient, unflinching portrait of tenant farmers in a poor Ibaraki village, drawn from years of close observation.

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A patient, unflinching portrait of tenant farmers in a poor Ibaraki village, drawn from years of close observation. Natsume Soseki, who serialized it in the Asahi Shimbun, called it a work of rare moral seriousness.

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