Ukigumo (Japanese: 浮雲, lit. "Drifting Cloud") is an 1887 Japanese novel by Shimei Futabatei. Published in three parts (with the last one in serialised form) between June 1887 and August 1889, it is frequently referred to as the first modern Japanese novel.[1][2][3]
^Japan's First Modern Novel: Ukigumo of Futabatei Shimei. Translated by Ryan, Marleigh Grayer (2 ed.). New York and London: Columbia University Press. 1971.
^Walker, Janet A. (2019). "Futabatei's Ukigumo (The Floating Clouds): The First Novel of the Individual". The Japanese Novel of the Meiji Period and the Ideal of Individualism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN9780691656441.
^Rimer, J. Thomas; Gessel, Van C., eds. (2005). "Drifting Clouds (Ukigumo) [abridged]". The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature. Volume 1: From Restoration to Occupation, 1868-1945. Columbia University Press. ISBN9780231118606.