TOKUTOMI: Footprints in The Snow 雪地足迹(ISBN=9784805306383)

    Originally published as Omoide nO Ki in l901，Footprints in the Snow is the story of the struggle of a penniless boy，Shintaro Kikuchi，for education and emancipation．Determined tO re— build the family fortunes after his father’S bankruptcy，Shintaro runs away from his home in a remote corner of Kyushu in the hope of making his way in the world．After various trials and tribulations he eventually succeeds in reaching a Christian college in Kyoto where he accepts Christianity enthusiastically，but iS SO repelled by the arrogance of the Western missionary teachers towards aJapanese colleague，that he later walks out in protest．Four years after leaving home．he finally arrives in Toky0，the City of his dreams．Yet his life iS far from peaceful here and he has to struggle to keep himself at university，tO pur-sue his career as a writer and journalist，and to marry the girl he loves．Footprints in the Snow became one of the most popular novels in modern Japan，conveying what it felt like tO be young in the days ofJapan’S great transformation from feudal to mod-ern state and reflecting the experience of countless young men attracted by Western technology and culture。

Introduction
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Epilogue