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Kasai Zenzō's With the Children in Tow (Ko o tsurete): a shi-shōsetsu.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2009

Masako Nakagawa
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In 1917, Kasai Zenzō (1887–1928) wrote With the Children in Tow (Ko o tsurete), a short story of approximately eleven pages in its original Shinchōsha edition. Kasai's work, paralleling the actual events that took place in his household from August 9th to 11th of the year of its publication, is exemplary of the shi-shōsetsu genre, I-novel or autobiographical narrative where the author recounts details of his personal life through a thin guise of fiction.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , July 2000 , pp. 171 - 192
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 2000

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