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The Soil: A Portrait of Rural Life in Meiji Japan (Voices from Asia) (1st Edition) by Takashi Nagatsuka, Ann Waswo (Translator), Anne Waswo Paperback, 222 Pages, Published 1994 ISBN-10: 0-520-08372-5 / 0520083725 ISBN-13: 978-0-520-08372-1 / 9780520083721 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 ove |