[Machine Translation] The author advocates "slow reading" in today's world of information overload. (A reading experience that emphasizes quality over quantity will enrich your life by providing you with an education that will be useful five or ten years from now. This book introduces an intellectual and practical reading method that enables deep understanding of immortal masterpieces by Soseki Natsume, Ogai Mori, Franz Kafka, Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, and others, as well as his own work "Soso" (Funeral).