← Tayama KataiInaka Kyoshiby Tayama KataiStory of a rural schoolteacher's struggles with urban life ambitionsFind on Amazon↗About the authorTayama KataiNaturalist novelist whose autobiographical novella The Quilt (Futon) scandalized Japan with its frank confession of erotic obsession. He is a founding figure of the Japanese I-novel (shishosetsu) tradition.More by Tayama KataiThe QuiltNaturalistic short story exploring an affair and domestic strife→Sei→One SoldierPsychological portrait of a soldier consumed by obsession and desires→