九州(きゅうしゅう)の出身(しゅっしん)で、東京の(とうきょうの)帝国大学(ていこくだいがく)に入学(にゅうがく)するために汽車(きしゃ)に乗って(のって)いた

'Sanshiro' is a representative mid-career work by Natsume Soseki, depicting the faint youth and heartbreak of a young man who comes to the city from the countryside. The protagonist, Ogawa Sanshiro, who graduated from a high school in Kyushu, was riding a train to Tokyo with great ambitions to enroll in Tokyo Imperial University.