![]() Though Sensei lives comfortably with a beautiful wife, Shizu, who is the like the ideal of a kind and obedient spouse, he is intensely melancholic and reclusive, and often speaks critically of himself, alluding to what the narrator discerns is a past tragedy while concealing most details. The narrator begins to visit Sensei more often and, his respect and interest in the man growing with each of their conversations, he tries to come to an understanding of him. ![]() Sensei is uncomfortably surprised to see the narrator, and, refusing to reveal the full significance of the graveyard he visits monthly, only tells him that a friend of his is buried there. Back in Tokyo, he calls on Sensei, but finds that the man has gone to a nearby cemetery at Zoshigaya and so he follows him. While aimlessly frequenting the beach alone, he notices and then befriends an enigmatic older man, whom he impulsively calls Sensei. ![]() During a summer holiday at the beaches of Kamakura, a city near Tokyo, the narrator, then a university student, is left alone when his friend is forced to return home. The novel begins with the unnamed protagonist writing about his past experiences with a man whom he called " Sensei" ("teacher" in Japanese). ![]()
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