is a novel by Japanese author

Natsume Sōseki , born , was a Japanese novelist. He is best known around the world for his novels ''Kokoro'', '' Botchan'', ''I Am a Cat'', '' Kusamakura'' and his unfinished work '' Light and Darkness''. He was also a scholar of British literature and writer ...

. It was serialized in

Asahi Shimbun is one of the four largest newspapers in Japan. Founded in 1879, it is also one of the oldest newspapers in Japan and Asia, and is considered a newspaper of record for Japan. Its circulation, which was 4.57 million for its morning edition and ...

newspaper from December 6, 1912 to November 5, 1913. The novel has been translated into English by

Beongcheon Yu Beongcheon Yu (29 December 1925 – 23 November 2022) () was a Korean-born translator of Natsume Sōseki's novel ''The Wayfarer'' and author of a critical study on Natsume. Yu was born in Korea on 29 December 1925, a twenty-eighth generation desc ...

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film written, directed and edited by

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, the main character Yukari Yukino can be seen reading Kōjin (The Wayfarer).

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The complete text of Kojin
in Japanese. 1912 novels Novels by Natsume Sōseki Novels first published in serial form Works originally published in Asahi Shimbun {{1910s-novel-stub