What do you think?
Rate this book


204 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1977
He thought of going to see Chijimi country. That excursion might set him on his way to breaking away from the hot spring.
He did not know at which of the towns downstream he should get off the train. Not interested in moderen weaving centres, he chose a town that looked suitably lonely and backward.
She had lept at the car as if to devour it, but for Shimamura something warm had suddenly come near. The impulsive act struck him as neither rash nor unnatural. Komako raised ne arm, half-embracing the closed window. Her kimono sleeve fell back from her wrist, and the warm red of the under kimono, spilled through the thick glass, sank its way into the half-frozen Shimamura. p. 105.