The Heredity of Taste (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature)

Still timely after nearly half a century, The Heredity of Taste is Soseki Natsume’s only antiwar work. The heartbreaking story of love shattered by the realities of battle reveals Soseki’s attitude toward the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–5.

With an introduction by Steven W. Kohl, University of Oregon.