5/11/2023 0 Comments Snow country japanese novel![]() ![]() ![]() We are in the heart of the so-called Snow Country. Today, we can repeat the same journey on the Joetsu Shinkansen and if we travel in winter, like the protagonist in Kawabata’s novel, we will be spellbound by the abrupt change in the landscape: the train enters a series of long tunnels, leaving behind Japan’s east coast, and by the time it emerges on the other side, we suddenly find ourselves surrounded by snow. Thus begins Kawabata Yasunari’s most famous novel, Snow Country, the story of a man who travels to a hot spring town where he meets and falls in love with a geisha. ![]() The earth lay white under the night sky”. The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country. The western side of Japan spends most of the winter under metres of powdery snow. The region is divided into “heavy snowfall areas” and “special heavy snowfall areas”. ![]()
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