List of Famous people with last name Soseki

Natsume Sōseki

夏目金之助

First Name Natsume

Last Name Sōseki

Died on December 9, 1916

Born in Japan, Tokyo, Shinjuku-ku

Natsume Sōseki , born Natsume Kin'nosuke , was a Japanese novelist. He is best known around the world for his novels Kokoro, Botchan, I Am a Cat and his unfinished work Light and Darkness. He was also a scholar of British literature and composer of haiku, kanshi, and fairy tales. From 1984 until 2004, his portrait appeared on the front of the Japanese 1000 yen note.

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Musō Soseki

First Name Musō

Born on November 30, 1274

Died on October 20, 1351 (aged 76)

Musō Soseki was a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk and teacher, and a calligraphist, poet and garden designer. The most famous monk of his time, he is also known as Musō Kokushi (夢窓国師), an honorific conferred on him by Emperor Go-Daigo. His mother was the daughter of Hōjō Masamura (1264-1268), seventh Shikken (regent) of the Kamakura shogunate.

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