NMLP P-043107 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Kokoro

Natsume Sōseki · Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo · 1914

The book was effectively author-financed — Sōseki paid production costs and the young bookseller Iwanami Shigeo sold it — which is why it stands as Iwanami Shoten's first literary publication

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-043107 for "Kokoro" by Natsume Sōseki (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-043107, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).