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Snow Country
Yasunari Kawabata
Kawabata's snow country is a hot-spring town on the west side of Honshu, reached from Tokyo by a train that runs south to north through a long mountain tunnel and comes out into deep Niigata snow. The map draws on the real onsen town of Yuzawa: the station, the bathhouses and inns on the slope, the cedars of the shrine, and the border tunnel that opens the book.
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The Sound of the Mountain
Yasunari Kawabata
Kamakura, the old seaside capital, where one sleepless night the aging Shingo Ogata hears a deep sound from the wooded hills behind his house and takes it for a summons. He commutes to a Tokyo office along the line north, so the map runs from the temple town to the gardens of the capital.
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