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title: "Kokoro"
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# Kokoro

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Review: Kokoro es una obra que goza de una calma inquietante, gracias al realismo cotidiano que utiliza Natsume para contarnos la vida de sus personajes. Realmente lo recomiendo.
Review: An Extraordinary Translation of a Uniquely Japanese Tale - Whether it is the original writing or what seems to be an extraordinary translation, this book's prose is a joy to read. The succinct yet powerful sentences, the very short chapters, the matter-of-fact way in which it's written are all wonderful. Other reviewers have gone into great details of the plot; I won't for various reasons, but while it's eminently readable and easy to follow, the denouement strikes me as so classically Japanese as to be alien to our culture. The sensei who is the subject of the book commits what he believes to be an unforgivable act and spends the rest of his life atoning for it -- though "atoning" is not quite the right word; maybe it's clearer to say he spends the rest of his life feeling guilty about it and -- almost -- doesn't do anything about it. I found that part of it a bit hard to accept, but that is probably more a statement of the cultural differences between early 20th Century Japan and 21st Century America than it is about a failing of the book.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #5,016,898 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1,156 in Asian American & Pacific Islander Literature (Books) #1,861 in Literary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars (1,758) |
| Dimensions  | 5.75 x 0.25 x 8.5 inches |
| ISBN-10  | 1420948423 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1420948424 |
| Item Weight  | 6.7 ounces |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 122 pages |
| Publication date  | January 1, 2013 |
| Publisher  | Digireads.Com |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by M***A on December 24, 2025*

Kokoro es una obra que goza de una calma inquietante, gracias al realismo cotidiano que utiliza Natsume para contarnos la vida de sus personajes. Realmente lo recomiendo.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ An Extraordinary Translation of a Uniquely Japanese Tale
*by R***M on August 6, 2018*

Whether it is the original writing or what seems to be an extraordinary translation, this book's prose is a joy to read. The succinct yet powerful sentences, the very short chapters, the matter-of-fact way in which it's written are all wonderful. Other reviewers have gone into great details of the plot; I won't for various reasons, but while it's eminently readable and easy to follow, the denouement strikes me as so classically Japanese as to be alien to our culture. The sensei who is the subject of the book commits what he believes to be an unforgivable act and spends the rest of his life atoning for it -- though "atoning" is not quite the right word; maybe it's clearer to say he spends the rest of his life feeling guilty about it and -- almost -- doesn't do anything about it. I found that part of it a bit hard to accept, but that is probably more a statement of the cultural differences between early 20th Century Japan and 21st Century America than it is about a failing of the book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A religious novel
*by D***A on October 23, 2013*

Kokoro is Soseki Natume’s novel of masterpiece. It looks just like the deep work of the Jodo-Shinshu sect of Buddhism that is the teaching of Japanese famous Shinran. It seems to be written about the theme of evil which human beings have. I as narrator first met respectful Sensei in Kamakura. Sensei has no job and seems to have deep philosophy. And he seems to have deep distress. I as narrator is a student and young. Therefore the young narrator has not his own thought and has little experience . Therefore Sensei may seem to be attractive. He has a beautiful wife and no children. When they started to talk the subject of children, Sensei said that we shall have no children because we received suitable punishment. And he visits the Zoshigaya grave regularly. When I as narrator get interested in it and inquired, Sensei answered that it is his good friend grave. Afterwards Sensei leaves his last will and testament, and commits suicide . Next sentence is the passage from his will. 【You can imagine my amazement when K launched into a ponderous confession of his agonized love for Ojosan. I froze, as if his words were a magic wand that turned me instantly to stone. My mouth failed to so much as twitch in an effort to respond. My whole being was reduced to a single concentrated point---of terror, of pain. I stiffened instantaneously from head to foot, like stone or steel. So rigid was I that I almost lost the power of breath. Luckily, however, this state quickly passed. A moment later I had returned to human feelings. And now a bitter regret swept over me. He had beaten me to it. I had no idea what my next move should be, however, I was too distressed, I suppose, to think coherently. I simply remained frozen, uncomfortably aware of the nasty sweat that was soaking the armpits of my shirt. K, meanwhile, was continuing the faltering confession of his love, pausing from time to grope for words. I was in agony. My distress must have been written on my face as blatantly as some advertising poster, I thought. Even K must surely notice it. But it seemed in fact that his attention was too deeply focused on himself to register my expression. His confession never varied in tone. There was a heavy dullness to it, it seemed to me, and a kind of unyielding inertia. While part of me listened to this faltering declaration, my heart was seething with the question What shall I do, oh, What shall I do? so that I scarecely comprehended the details of what K was saying. The overall tone of his words , however, struck me to to the core. So my pain was now mixed with a kind of terror—the beginnings of a horrified recognition that he was stronger than I. When K finished, I could say nothing. I was not struck dumb by any internal debate about whether it would be wiser to make the same confession to him or to keep my secret to myself. It was simply that I could not speak. Nor did I wish to. At lunch K and I faced each other across the table. Served by the maid, we ate what seemed to me an unusually tasteless meal. We spoke barely a word during the meal. We had no idea when Okusan and Ojosan would return. 】

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