Post-Political Novels : The Beginning of Another Modern Period

Abstract

When Tsubouchi Shoyo wrote Shosetsu Shinzui(the essence of novels), did the genre of political novels come to an end without discovering its unique expressions? I discuss a new type of expression which began at the end of Jiyii Minken Movement. This type of expression, in which, I believe, political novels survived, must be different from the modern novels illustrated in Shosetsu Shinzui.