Tokuda Shusei kinenkan Museum

This guide to the Tokuda Shusei kinenkan Museum in Kanazawa follows the path along the Asano River named for a novelist born here in 1871, who turned away from the city's polished postcard image to write about ordinary, unsentimental lives. It traces his rise in Tokyo as a leading naturalist writer, including the novel Mold and the marriage story Rough Living, and the pull the riverbank never lost on him. The museum sits at the foot of Mount Utatsuyama, on the same stretch of water he grew up beside.