Description

A sensational new interpretation-the very first in significantly more than forty years-of the significant book from the father of modern Japanese fiction Natsume S?sekiis Kusamakura uses its anonymous small performer-narrator on the winding walking tour of the hills. At the motel at a hot-spring resort, he's a number of strange encounters with Nami, the beautiful young daughter of the institution. Nami, or "elegance," may be the heart of the elegant book, the still point around that the performer techniques and the subject of S?sekiis word-painting. In the writer's terms, Kusamakura is "a haiku-type book, that lives through elegance." Created at the same time when Japan was opening its gates for the remaining globe, Kusamakura becomes inward, towards the perfect mountain idyll and the taciturn lyricism of its courtship moments, enshrining the substance of old Japan in a function of charming literary nostalgia.