| Summary: | The modern Japanese bodies underwent violent transformations. To examine these, we shall study here the links which weaved both writer Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) and Natsume Sôseki (1867-1916) between pain and appetite. At the first one, the tuberculosis, far from being an obstacle to the desire to eat, is in reality only sharpening the hunger. At the second on the other hand, to feed is always a distressing action which cannot engender anything but suffering. So by grasping in the root these two intense physical experiments, we hope to make resound echoes between these bodies and ours, rather than to assign them to an improbable japonity.
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