The title character of this novel is extremely attached to a certain type of silk which is no longer made, and the narrator is unable to have sex with a girl after his image of her purity is tarnished.
The narrator comments that light goes through his lover as if she were a translucent silkworm and that her mouth opens and closes "like a beautiful little circle of leeches." One character's singing is associated with an ancient chijimi weaver and this novel ends with a fire at a cocoon warehouse. The title character of this novel is extremely attached to a certain type of silk which is no longer made, and the narrator is unable to have sex with a girl after his image of her purity is tarnished. A side story in this novel is Kikuyu's, and its narrator writes about ballet but has never seen one. The son of one character's former music teacher is nursed by Yoko and he asks to see the geisha Komako before he dies. For 10 points, name this novel about Shimamura's visits to the title location, a work of Kawabata Yasunari.
The narrator comments that light goes through his lover as if she were a translucent silkworm and that her mouth opens and closes "like a beautiful little circle of leeches.
Snow Country (also accept Yukiguni)