A hot-headed Tokyo math teacher is shipped off to a provincial school, where he nicknames his scheming colleagues Red Shirt and Porcupine and wages a one-man war on small-town hypocrisy.
Books mentioned in Botchan (2)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin: “Red Shirt should have been a little more considerate. And if he wants to mention such names at all, let him mention "Autobiography of Ben Franklin," or "Pushing to the Front," or something we all know.”
Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden: “Red Shirt should have been a little more considerate. And if he wants to mention such names at all, let him mention "Autobiography of Ben Franklin," or "Pushing to the Front," or something we all know.”