num_pages: 224
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Soil: A Portrait of Rural Life in Meiji Japan
titlecomplete: The Soil: A Portrait of Rural Life in Meiji Japan
genres: Classics, Japan, Asia, Japanese Literature, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Read For School
ratings_count: 115
series: Voices from Asia
publisher: University of California Press