Publishing, buying and borrowing provide different routes to a book.
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Bunkobon are small-format paperbacks common in Japanese publishing, usually close to A6 size. They can contain fiction, classics, philosophy or science. Bunko also appears in particular series names, so format, publishing series and an individual edition need separate identification.
Iwanami Shoten is a Japanese publisher founded by Shigeo Iwanami in 1913 as a used-book and publishing business. Its work spans scholarly and general-interest books, literary series, magazines, children’s books and reference works.
Natsume Sōseki’s Kokoro appeared in 1914, first as a newspaper serial and then as a book. A young narrator’s relationship with a man he calls Sensei eventually gives way to Sensei’s long letter, which changes how the earlier encounters can be understood.
