Botchan (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Kinnosuke Natsume
- First Published: 1906
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: 1894-1895
- Setting: Tokyo and a castle town on the island of Shikoku, Japan
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Nineteenth century, Friendship, Servants, Japan or Japanese people, Students or student life, Feudalism, Tokyo
- Locales: Tokyo, Japan
Characters Discussed
Botchan, a very impulsive, unsophisticated young man from Tokyo. Sometime after the death of his parents, he accepts a job as a mathematics teacher in a junior high school in a small town on the island of Shikoku. His innocence is threatened repeatedly by the school’s rambunctious students, devious and fractious teachers, and cravenly weak administrators. His personality and values conflict with those of the small town, and he lasts less than a year at the school. Botchan gets into one scrape after another but leaves with his honor and innocence intact...
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