A landmark in modern Japanese literature, The Innocent marks the first-ever complete English translation of Saneatsu Mushanokoji's Omedetaki Hito (1911), also referenced as "The Good-Natured Person". This compact literary masterpiece delves deeply into themes of identity and self-expression in the context of Japan's Meiji Restoration - a time that ended 265 years of national seclusion and ushered...