Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972), Japanese writer. The originality of the artistic style goes back to Zen aesthetics. The stories “Snow Country” (1937), “The Thousand-Winged Crane” (1951), the novels “The Moan of the Mountain” (1953), “The Old Capital” (1961) are distinguished by their psychologism and lyricism. Nobel Prize (1968)

The hero of the story “Snow Country” Shimamura leaves his wife and children in Tokyo once a year to go to the springs and spend time there with the geisha Komako, to whom he feels a psychological attachment, fueled by attraction. Returning for the second time to the “snow country”, he meets a girl named Yoko, who interests him no less.