The Gate (門, Mon^?) is a Japanese novel written in 1910 by Natsume Sōseki, author of I Am a Cat. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story Year 1910 ( MCMX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting was the Pen name of, who is widely considered to be the foremost Japanese novelist of the Meiji Era (1868-1912 is a comical Novel written in 1905-1906 by the Japanese author Natsume Sōseki. It was a commercial success when published in Japan and has been translated into English by Francis Mathy.

The Gate concerns a middle-aged married couple, Oyone and Sosuke, who married for love in their student days. The couple first suffered exclusion from society due to their ill-advised marriage; as the novel opens, they languish in ennui because they no longer feel passion for one another. However, Oyone's ill health and a visit from Sosuke's younger brother provoke a marital crisis which becomes the central diegesis. Diegesis is the (fictional world in which the situations and events narrated occur and telling recounting as opposed to showing enacting

Thematically and by the author's own reckoning, The Gate is the third in a trilogy of novels begun by Sanshiro (1908) and And Then (それから, Sorekara^?) (1909). And Then is the fifth album by American singer Joe, released in the United States on December 2, 2003 (see All three novels deal with the themes of self-knowledge and responsibility - on the one hand, accountability to society, and on the other, responsibility to one's own emotions. Self-knowledge describes ideas pertaining to Psychology, Philosophy and Mysticism. However, the three novels do not share characters.