# The Adventures of Natsuko

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- Authors: [Yukio Mishima](https://www.bookquiver.com/yukio-mishima)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Translated by: Stephen Dodd
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-0206-419-3
- Published: 2027-01-21
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Natsuko Matsuura is headstrong, beautiful and determined to live a life beyond the ordinary. Disappointed again and again by the drearily conventional men on the Tokyo dating scene, she decides to renounce marriage altogether and join a convent in faraway Hokkaido. Setting off with her grandmother, mother and aunt, she readies herself for a nun’s life. But her journey is derailed when she meets Tsuyoshi Ida, a fiery young man with sparkling eyes and a score to settle; with a hunting rifle slung over his shoulder, he’s tracking a bear through the forests of Hokkaido, seeking vengeance for the death of his former girlfriend. Thinking she may at last have met a man who shares her sense of adventure, Natsuko flees her anxious guardians and joins the hunt, with more than a bear in her sights . . . Written in 1951 and translated into English for the very first time, The Adventures of Natsuko shows Mishima at his comic best.