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This author is thematically paired with Machado de Assis (“ma-SHAH-doo jee ah-SEESE”) in a chapter of Edwin Frank’s book Stranger Than Fiction. That chapter highlights a novel by this author in which a businessman ostracized for his love marriage fails to understand a koan about his face before birth. In a novel by this Anglophilic author of The Gate, a man is enraged when children put grasshoppers in his bed. (-5[1])One of this author’s characters commits suicide (10[1])after the death of an admiral, in part (10[1])because as a young man he stole a landlady’s (10[1])daughter from his (10[1])friend K, (10[3])and is called (10[1])“Sensei” by a nameless (10[2])student narrator. (10[1])One of this author’s (10[1])title characters (10[1])is a math teacher (10[1])who beats up the vice (10[1])principal (10[2])Red Shirt before moving (10[1])to Tokyo to live with the servant Kiyo. (10[1])For 10 points, name this Meiji-era author of Kokoro and Botchan. (10[2])■END■ (10[8]0[12])

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