This is Jun Eto's literary criticism, "Soseki and His Times, Part 2." It depicts Natsume Soseki's experience of disorientation in London, where he was sent by the government in October 1900, just before Queen Victoria's reign, and the process of his transformation into a writer, amidst the urbanization and industrialization of the city. It has been stored on a bookshelf. There are scratches, stains, discoloration, and warping.