Botchan

"The setting is Japan's deep south, where the author himself spent some time teaching English in a boys' school. Into this conservative world, with its social proprieties and established pecking order, breezes Botchan, down from the big city, with scant respect for either his elders or his noisy young charges; and the result is a chain of collisions large and small. Here, in a new translation much better suited to Western tastes than any of its forebears, Botchan's homespun appeal is all the more apparent."--BOOK JACKET

Set in

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  Matsuyama · Japan

  provincial town
  ★ primary
• ★
  Tokyo · Japan

  Botchan's hometown, opening chapters
  ★ primary
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  Ehime Prefectural Matsuyama Higashi High School · Japan

  real-world site identified as the model for Botchan's school
  ★ primary
• Dogo Onsen · Japan

  hot spring in narrative