Visit YUKIGUNI and try to add yourself to the story. A culture that has been woven in harmony with nature since ancient times, a nostalgic sight. Perhaps these great writers were fascinated by such aspects of YUKIGUNI, loved this place, and got inspirations for their novels. Time, flowing quietly in YUKIGUNI, calms your mind and bring great writers to deep places of thought. Your tired heart and body will be relaxed and healed in the numerous famous onsen. If you listen carefully, you can hear the sound of insects from a distance. When you look up, the Moon shines in the far distance. Clean air and golden sunset that illuminates the autumn leaves dyed in bright red.

This act is a type of symbolism that shows the reader that Shimamura is on purposely distancing himself from life and reality.What are the charms of YUKIGUNI (Snow Country) that great writers loved? Great nature in a place close to the city. His entire knowledge on the subject is derived from books. He is only in love with her beauty and her arts which most certainly different then being in love.Ī telling detail of his shallow dilettante and play boy character is that he claims to be an expert in Western ballet he has not once seen an actual ballet performance in his life. While Komako is in love with Shimamura he is not in love with her. The twisted relationship between Shimamura and Komako which is meant to be a romance is doomed from the very start. Geishas from hot springs were expected to provide a more involved form of entertainment for their male patrons.

Geishas within these rural resorts differ from those who are found in major cities, such as Tokyo, where their primary role is to provide entertainment. Rather the tradition in Japan, as shown in this novel, is that hot spring resorts in the Snow Country were expected to cater lone travelling males who are in search for female companionship. The hot spring resort in this novel is not the typical family holiday resort that Westerners have come to expect. On the train his eye catches a beautiful girl, Komako, who is a local geisha in which he engages in an affair with her. Tired of the city Shimamura takes a train to a rural hot spring resort in the depths of the mountains. The main protagonist, Shimamura, is a wealthy married man from Tokyo who Kawabata describes as a shallow dinette and a playboy.

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