Cat Cafe of Natsume Shushi in Shinjuku District, Tokyo

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As Japan's first national writer, Natsume Shushi is proficient in Eastern and Western culture, humorous and novel, focusing on accurate and subtle psychological description, and has carried many scholars, including Akutagawa Ryunosuke, as a representative writer in the history of modern Japanese literature.

Cats occupy an important position in Natsume Shushi's life. At that time, he became famous as a cat in a teacher's family and used it as a guide to literature.

Natsume Shushi's study

In the old district of Waseda, which is rarely visited by tourists, there is a trendy white transparent glass building. If it hadn't been for the cat signs on the ground, it would have been hard to guess. This is the memorial hall of Shushi Yamamaba, the former home of the Japanese writer Natsume Shushi.

Shushi Mountain Room Memorial Hall

Natsume Shushi's Waseda former home was destroyed during World War II. During the reconstruction, Shinjuku District converted part of the Shushi mountain house into a cafe: cafe soseki. In order to recreate the sense of air of the Showa era, floor-to-ceiling glass is widely used here. You can take a nap here after visiting the memorial hall, or you can read the works of Natsume Shushi on the bookshelf.

As a well-known "cat slave" writer, Natsume Shushi, the cat occupies a very important position in his works and life. Therefore, there is not only the black cat on the coffee cup and plate, but also a variety of souvenirs printed with the black cat pattern in front of the counter.

There is also a "I am a cat" style on the menu, with "empty" fruit, which is a dessert from "I am a cat".

You can not only drink coffee here, but also read Natsume Shushi's works from the bookshelf. I can see that the floor-to-ceiling glass makes Cafe Soseki look more transparent and pure, and there is a large expanse of lush green outside the window.

With such a light scenery, I believe time will become softer.

At first glance, the menu of this restaurant is very simple, but many of the food here has something to do with Natsume Shushi: "Kongyuzhuangzu" is a dim sum written in Natsume Shushi's masterpiece "I am a Cat". It is also a famous thing in Ginza and fruit, and it has also appeared on the stage in the hit TV series "Picture of Tokyo Women." the persimmon ice cream here is also made from Natsume Shushi's favorite "only Garden Persimmon".

After ordering the meal, looking back out of the window, the lush green is intertwined with a large piece of transparent glass, which reminds people of Natsume Shushi's famous sentence: "White is pure white."

Eat a mouthful of red bean flavor of the most medium cake, take a sip of the baked tea of Lin Chunsong's shop in Kyoto, look around, most of the people in the store are reading, very quiet. What a good place to miss Natsume Shushi.