{"product_id":"kusamakura","title":"Kusamakura","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA painter climbs into the mountains to feel nothing, and finds that he cannot.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrder this book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=vRiB7iBd6Ff1mOMsZU8GqLdXVbo6ulYel7wkTqetfZt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ePaperback from IngramSpark →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=IGsjnyi5PRy1Qn7HS02SqAbCWNMmRPmKQ615kaNXNM5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eHardcover from IngramSpark →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbout this edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNatsume Sōseki called \u003cem\u003eKusamakura\u003c\/em\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresented here in Kazutomo Takahashi’s public-domain 1927 translation, freshly typeset in EB Garamond and Marcellus behind an original mixed media illustration by JVB Atelier Designs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNatsume Sōseki (1867–1916)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTranslated by Kazutomo Takahashi (1927)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNorthlume Classic Library\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 132 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"JVB Atelier","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44686112358442,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0228\/4330\/files\/kusamakura.jpg?v=1786494124","url":"https:\/\/northlume.org\/products\/kusamakura","provider":"Northlume ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}