Ukigumo

by Futabatei Shimei · 1887

Bunzō, an honest clerk fired from his government post, lives with his aunt and her Westernized daughter Osei in Tokyo. His rival Noboru Honda, a glib careerist, wins Osei's attention while Bunzō dithers, in a pioneering psychological novel written in colloquial Japanese.

Books mentioned in Ukigumo (1)

• Illusions by James Sully: “Speaking of ‘illusions,’ of all the books I’ve read so far, none has seemed as fascinating to me as Sully’s ‘Illusions.’ I read it straight through in two days and a night. [auto-translated]”