Kokoro

K’s Grave

K’s grave symbolizes Sensei’s secret, lifelong guilt over his role in his friend K’s suicide. As he explains in his letter to the narrator, he and K had fallen in love with…

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Sensei’s Letter

In Kokoro, Sensei’s letter symbolizes the passing of the torch from one generation to the next. Part suicide note, part confessional, the letter contains the sole written account of Sensei’s life story, including the…

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The Diploma

In Kokoro, the narrator’s diploma represents the diverging worldviews between him and his father. While the narrator, sharing Sensei’s “secret contempt” for university education, sees his diploma as commonplace and insignificant, his father…

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