Two characters discuss the Kikumura restaurant managed by a farmer's wife but named for his mistress Kikuyu, and one character in this work drinks too much inexpensive whiskey and then angrily bites her own arm.
The protagonist of this work asks a Russian peddler where she is from before she leaves the inn, and a blind masseuse determines that the protagonist doesn't drink alcohol by feeling his skin. Two characters discuss the Kikumura restaurant managed by a farmer's wife but named for his mistress Kikuyu, and one character in this work drinks too much inexpensive whiskey and then angrily bites her own arm. Later, that character pretends to hold her samisen like a child and plays "Dark Hair," and says it was the first song she learned. That character refuses to return home when told (*) Yukio, the son of the music teacher, is dying in order to see a train leave, and Komako is upset that Shimamura did not return on the fourteenth of February. For 10 points, name this novel by the author of The Old Capital and The Sound of the Mountain that begins with a train entering the titular region.
The protagonist of this work asks a Russian peddler where she is from before she leaves the inn, and a blind masseuse determines that the protagonist doesn't drink alcohol by feeling his skin.
{Snow Country} [or “{Yukiguni}”]