Theprotagonist's daughter-in-law is scarred from (+) forceps used when she was born.
In this novel, newspapers reported on two-thousand-year-old lotus seedssprouting. The granddaughter of this novel's protagonist is so upset that she doesnot own a kimono that she attacks a dancing girl and is nearly hit by a car. Theprotagonist's daughter-in-law is scarred from (+) forceps used when she was born.The protagonist learns from the newspaper that his son-in-law, Aihara, attempted suicide, and his daughter Fusako moves in with him. The secretary Eiko takes the protagonist to his son's mistress's house; that mistress, (*) Kinuko, is pregnant and funds an abortion for the wife, Kikuko, of her lover, Shuichi. At the beginning of this novel, the protagonist is reminded of death by the title phenomenon. For ten points, identify this novel about the family of Yasuko and the patriarch Ogata Shingo written by Yasunari Kawabata.
In this novel, newspapers reported on two-thousand-year-old lotus seedssprouting.
The Sound of the Mountain (or Yama no Oto)