Soseki mastered English to the extent of being able to read and write it with great fluency.
During his formative years Soseki was exposed to the growing conflict between excessive Westernization and Japanese nationalism, which no doubt resulted in his being at once very modern and very Japanese. Entering the university in 1884, he specialized in English literature. Of a studious disposition, Soseki early learned classical Chinese, with much enthusiasm, and English.
An unhappy childhood, including a period spent with foster parents, and the realization that he was an unwanted child, left an indelible mark on Soseki's imagination which he was to carry to the grave. His parents were rather well-to-do townspeople, whose fortunes, however, declined after the Meiji restoration of 1868. Soseki Natsume was born Kinnosuke Natsume in Tokyo he is known in Japanese literature by his pen name of Soseki. In his fiction and essays he displays keen psychological insight into the personality of man undergoing the transition from traditional to modern. The Japanese novelist and essayist Soseki Natsume (1867-1916) was one of the greatest Japanese novelists of the modern period.
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