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Soseki Natume is the Japanese modern writer who does not believe God nor Christianity. We can see that his suffering to western culture in his many works means the conflict with Christianity. His idea of nature in Sorekara and Mon appears the old Japanese native spirit which is against Christianity. Such a Soseki wrote the spiritual love and conflict between mind and body in the latter three works. Especially the idea of Platonic love and dualism is described here and there in Kokoro. This is like as the idea of western Christianity. According to the conclusion of Kokoro we can see that Soseki got such a idea of true love by Tokoku Kitamura who wrote about Platonic love and dualism 10 years before than Soseki.