On the train, three hours earlier: 7-11 Shimamura, Yoko, Yukio Shimamura recalls Komako, when Yoko’s eye appears in the window/mirror Yoko is helping a sick man. Snow Country, probably the most famous of Yasunari Kawabata's classical Japanese novels, is the story of a love affair doomed from the very start.Set on the snowy, mountainous slopes of Western Japan, Snow Country tells the story of Komako, a hot springs geisha and Shimamura, a wealthy Tokyo dilettante who works as an expert on occidental ballet. `Snow Country' is a beautiful novel from the Nobel prize winning novelist Yasunari Kawabata.
He leaned against the brazier, provided against the coming of the snowy season, and thought how unlikely it was that he would come again once he had left. Yoko. Snow Country is a stark tale of a love affair between a Tokyo dilettante and a provincial geisha that takes place in the remote hot spring town of Yuzawa. It follows Shimamura who spends his vacation time at a isolated mountain hot spring and Komako, a geisha who works there and entertains the guests who visit to ski and soak in the springs.
Despite Komako’s profession (hot spring geisha were essentially prostitutes), she retains an innocence and purity to her spirit.
How, then, might a departure A Rereading of Snow Country from Komako's Point of View Tajima Yoko Translated by Donna George Storey The narrator of Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country is Shimamura. The train arrives at the hot-spring snow country train station Shimamura listens to Yoko speak with the station master. Snow Country Characters Yasunari Kawabata This Study Guide consists of approximately 29 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Snow Country. Namely, because she believes in love. A girl who lives in the hot spring town whom Shimamura admires on the train. Snow Country offers a good introduction because it lacks the complexity you find in stories like The Tale of Genji. ... Komako. At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante meets Komako, a lowly geisha.
Kawabata often uses the word clean to refer to Komako and Yoko.
Snow Country study guide contains a biography of Yasunari Kawabata, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. At night (the present) at the train station: 11-12
( Kawabata did not mention the name of the town in his novel.) He “heard in his chest, like snow piling up, the sound of Komako, an echo beating against empty walls. Nobel 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 western Japan. And he knew that he could not go on pampering himself forever. In the past, I have always read the novel from Shimamura's point of view, and I assume that most critics have done the same. A geisha at the hot spring town who falls in love with Shimamura. The hot springs in that region were home to inns, visited by men traveling alone and in groups, where paid female companionship had become a staple of the economy.