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Nagatsuka Takashi's novel The Soil, published in Japan in 1910, provides a moving and sensitive but unsentimental portrait of rural peasant life in Japan during the Meiji era. The community described is the author's native place, and the characters whose lives are described in vivid detail over a period of years are drawn from life.Waswo, Ann is the author of 'Soil A Portrait of Rural Life in Meiji Japan', published 1994 under ISBN 9780520083721 and ISBN 0520083725.
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