The notes went out crystalline into the clean winter morning, to sound on the far, snowy peaks. - Yasunari Kawabata

Two middle-aged American couples came back from the dining car and, as soon as they could see Mt. Fuji, past Numazu, stood at the windows eagerly taking photographs. By the time Fuji was completely visible, down to the fields at its base, they seemed tired of photographing and had turned their backs to it.

"It's not right to live so long in this world only moving backward."

-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year"

国境の長いトンネルを抜けると雪国であった。夜の底が白くなった。