The story is about a dance art researcher named Shimamura in Tokyo, who went to the hot spring hotel in Snow Country for three times and had an emotional entanglement with a local geisha named Komako and a girl Ye who met by chance: Shimamura is a middle-aged man with a wife and children, sitting on his inheritance, doing nothing, and occasionally studying and commenting on western dance through photos and written materials.

He came to the hot spring hotel in Guo Xue, met Komako, a geisha, and was attracted by her beauty and simplicity. He even thought that she was "clean at every toe bend" and later went to Guo Xue twice to see Foal.

The novel begins with Shimamura's second visit to Snow Country. Koko's son, China Southern Airlines, suffered from tuberculosis, and Ye Zi accompanied him back to Tangze by train from Tokyo, just sitting opposite the island village where Koko met for the second time.

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The influence of the work

Snow Country is Yasunari Kawabata's first novella and his masterpiece. Among all Kawabata's works, Snow Country has been translated most overseas and introduced to many countries and regions. China has also published different editions.

Chuanduan's novels have caused mixed comments on ideological content, but his "superb skills" are recognized. Snow country is representative. He combined some creative techniques of western modernism with Japan's inherent literary tradition, found a new way in characterization and plot structure, and made contributions to the development of Japanese literature and world literature.

Snow Country is less than 80,000 words, but it is a very important novel in Kawabata. Compared with Thousand Cranes (1949- 195 1) and Ancient Capital (1962), it is characterized by "keen feelings and superb narrative skills".

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