Soseki's works are categorized in the Yoyuha school, which was in contrast with the naturalist literature, the mainstream of literature in those days, because his novels have full of 'Teikai shumi,' coined by Soseki, which means dilettantism to be relaxed in thinking about one's life instead of being occupied with mundane affairs.
漱石の作品は世俗を忘れ、人生をゆったりと眺めようとする低徊趣味（漱石の造語）的要素が強く、当時の主流であった自然主義文学とは対立する余裕派と呼ばれた。