"The Gate" Author: [Japanese] Natsume Soseki Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House

Introduction
"The Gate" is one of Natsume Soseki's representative works of anti-naturalism. The author created a sentimental world by combining realism and romanticism.
That is to say, apart from the provision of their daily necessities, they hardly felt the existence of society. The most indispensable thing for them was to live in dependence on each other, and in this regard, they were quite content. They lived in a big city with the mentality of living in the mountains.
The couple's life had no room to expand outward, so they went deeper and deeper inward. As the depth increased, the breadth was lost. For six years, they did not seek to easily negotiate with the world, but spent all these six years to understand the feelings between the couple. The lifeblood of the two people had penetrated each other unconsciously. In the eyes of others, the two of them were still two people, but in their own eyes, they were nothing more than a single organism that could not be divided morally. The nervous system that connected the two people's spirits, including the nerve endings, had become one.