2 . Timon of Athens: This famously misanthropic Greek ruler (fifth century B.C.) was portrayed in Shakespearea€™s 1623 play of that name.
CHAPTER 11
1 . Iwasa Matabei: Matabei (1578-1650) was a Japanese painter with a quirky, freestyle form.
2 . nembutsu: A repeated chant invoking Amida Buddha. An early form of nembutsu worship included dance.
3 . Chao Buzhi: Buzhi (1053-1110) was a Chinese poet, painter, and scholar. The fol owing quotation is from Traveling to the Northern Mountains of Xincheng.
CHAPTER 12
1 . Goodall: Frederick Goodal (1822-1904) was a British portraitist and landscape painter.
2 . There was once a youth . . . on the rock above: In 1903, at the age of eighteen, Fujimura Misao, a disciple of Soseki, committed suicide at the Kegon Fal s in Nikko. He left a final poem on a nearby tree.
3 . Beset by thoughts . . . all about: A poem composed by Soseki in March 1899, contemporaneously with the period of his life on which this novel is based.
4 . in the style of the Kano School: Kano was an elegant painting style dating from the fifteenth century.
