Snow Country - Wikipedia
WEBSnow Country (雪国, Yukiguni, IPA: [jɯkiꜜɡɯɲi]) is a novel by the Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata. The novel is considered a classic work of Japanese literature [1] …
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WEBNobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's masterpiece, a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of …
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WEBJan 30, 1996 — At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante meets Komako, a lowly geisha. She gives herself to him fully and without remorse, despite knowing that their passion cannot last and that the affair can have only one outcome.
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WEBDec 12, 2019 — In the acclaimed 1948 novel "Snow Country," a Japanese landscape rich in natural beauty serves as the setting for a fleeting, melancholy love affair. The novel’s opening describes an evening train ride through "the west coast of the main island of Japan," the titular frozen environment where the earth is "white under the night sky."
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WEBAt an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante meets Komako, a lowly geisha. She gives herself to him fully and without remorse, despite knowing that their passion cannot last and that the affair can have only one outcome.
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WEBShimamura, a wealthy married man from Tokyo, takes a train to Japan’s snow country in search of Komako, an amateur geisha with whom he connected on a previous visit to an onsen (a hot spring resort).
Snow Country | Japanese Literature, Nobel Prize, Postwar Japan
WEBSnow Country, short novel by Kawabata Yasunari, published in Japanese in 1948 as Yukiguni. The work was begun in 1935 and completed in 1937, with a final version completed in 1947. It deals with psychological, social, and erotic interaction between an aesthete and a beautiful geisha and is set.