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Encyclopedia > The Sound of the Mountain

The Sound of the Mountain (Yama no Oto) is a novel by Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata, serialized between 1949 and 1954. Its translation into English by Edward G. Seidensticker was first published in 1970, earning Seidensticker the National Book Award for Translation the following year. Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe; title page of 1719 newspaper edition A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成 Kawabata Yasunari, June 14, 1899 – April 16, 1972) was a Japanese novelist whose spare, lyrical and subtly shaded prose won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. ... Edward G. Seidensticker (born February 11, 1921, in Castle Rock, Colorado) is a noted scholar and translator of Japanese literature, particularly known for his accurate English version of The Tale of Genji (1976) and for his landmark translations of Yasunari Kawabata, which led to Kawabatas winning the Nobel Prize... The National Book Award is one of the most important literary prizes in the United States, presented annually for the best books by living U.S. citizens published in the U.S. The awards have been presented since 1950 in at least one category, and are presently awarded in each...

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Plot outline

The novel centers upon the Ogata family of Kamakura, and its events are witnessed from the perspective of its aging patriarch, Shingo, a businessman close to retirement who works in Tokyo. Although only sixty-two years old at the beginning of the novel, Shingo has already begun to experience temporary lapses of memory, to recall strange and disturbing dreams upon waking, and occasionally to hear sounds heard by no one else, including the titular noise which awakens him from his sleep one night, "like wind, far away, but with a depth like a rumbling of the earth." Shingo takes the sound to be an omen of his impending death, as he had once coughed up blood (a possible sign of tuberculosis) a year before, but had not sought medical consultation and the symptom subsequently went away. Crowds of visitors in Kamakura (Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine) Big Buddha at Kotokuin Kamakura (Japanese: 鎌倉市; -shi) is a city located in Kanagawa, Japan, about 50 km south-south-west of Tokyo (to which it is linked by the railway line to Yokosuka). ... Tokyo ) , literally eastern capital, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and includes the highly urbanized central area formerly known as the city of Tokyo which is the heart of the Greater Tokyo Area. ... Tuberculosis (commonly shortened to TB) is an infection caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can also affect the central nervous system (meningitis), lymphatic system, circulatory system (Miliary tuberculosis), genitourinary system, bones and joints. ...


Although he does not outwardly change his daily routine, Shingo begins to observe and question more closely his relations with the other members of his family, who include his wife Yasuko, his philandering son Shuichi (who, in traditional Japanese custom, lives with his wife in his parents' house), his daughter-in-law Kikuko, and his married daughter Fusako, who has left her husband and returned to her family home with her two young daughters. Shingo realizes that he has not truly been an involved and loving husband and father, and perceives the marital difficulties of his adult children to be the fruit of his poor parenting.


To this end, he begins to question his secretary, Tanizaki Eiko, about his son's affair, as she knows Shuichi socially and is friends with his mistress, and he quietly puts pressure upon Shuichi to quit his infidelity. At the same time, he uncomfortably becomes aware that he has begun to experience a fatherly yet erotic attachment to Kikuko, whose quiet suffering in the face of her husband's unfaithfulness, physical attractiveness, and filial devotion contrast strongly with the bitter resentment and homeliness of his own daughter, Fusako. Complicating matters in his own marriage is the infatuation that as a young man he once possessed for Yasuko's older sister, more beautiful than Yasuko herself, who died as a young woman but who has again begun to appear in his dreams, along with images of other dead friends and associates.


The novel may be interpreted as a meditation upon aging and its attendant decline, and the coming to terms with one's mortality that is its hallmark. Even as Shingo regrets not being present for his family and blames himself for his children's failing marriages, the natural world, represented by the mountain itself, the cherry tree in the yard of his house, the flights of birds and insects in the early summer evening, or two pine trees he sees from the window of his commuter train each day, comes alive for him in a whole new way, provoking meditations on life, love, and companionship. Ageing or aging is the process of getting older. ...


Chapter-by-chapter

  1. The Sound of the Mountain
    1. Shingo feels his memory is going soon after maid is sacked
    2. The sound of the mountain; the geisha's story of planning a double suicide (start of August)
    3. Description of Shingo's workplace; he buys whelks and gingko nuts (Thursday)
    4. The backstory of Yasuko's sister and Shuichi's mistress
    5. Tanizaki's classmate applies to be new maid; was the sound of the mountain an omen?
  2. The Wings of the Locust
    1. Yasuko looks in Fusako's purse
    2. Sunflowers near their house like "heads of famous people"
    3. Swallowtails; Shingo dreams about dead acquaintances
    4. Wingless locusts; Shingo's Friday dance with Eiko (Sunday, early September, before "day 210 after start of spring")
  3. A Blaze of Clouds
    1. Typhoon on "Day 209"; Kikuko dances; power failure
    2. Women's hairstyles; Fusako jealous of Kikuko? the kerchief; Yasuko's father
    3. The mikoshi's tin roof; Eiko; Shingo and Shuichi go to the cinema
  4. The Chestnuts
    1. Kikuko notices gingko buds; aftermath of storm; Yasuko's dream of ruined house in Shinano
    2. Yasuko's father; chestnut rebound at wedding; telegram says Fusako has moved in with Yasuko's aunt in Shinano (autumn)
    3. Shuichi leaves for Shinano; Shingo talks to Eiko about Shuichi's mistress; dead Toriyama (Saturday morning)
    4. Toriyama's funeral; the Noh masks of Mizuta (Saturday afternoon)
    5. Sparrows and buntings; Eiko takes Shingo to see the Hongo house of Kinu(ko) (Saturday evening)
  5. A Dream of Islands
    1. Teru the dog has a litter of ten puppies
    2. Shingo's dream about Matsushima; Suzumoto brings him Mizuta's Noh masks
    3. Shingo shows the masks to the family
    4. Teru and her five(?) puppies (29 Dec)
  6. The Cherry in the Winter
    1. Satoko running up and down the verandah; age-reckonings; return of Fusako (1 Jan)
    2. Return of Fusako (31 Dec)
    3. Eiko visits, tells Shingo about her decision (1 Jan)
    4. Shingo and Yasuko in Atami (January)
  7. Water in the Morning
    1. The death of Kitamoto; Eiko's connection
    2. Kikuko's nose-bleed; Shingo and Shuichi have lunch
    3. Eiko and Kinu(ko)'s housemate come to the office to talk about Kinu(ko) (early March?)
    4. Should Shuichi leave home?
  8. The Voice in the Night
    1. Shuichi comes home drunk at 2.30am
    2. Shingo dreams about reading a novel; newspaper article about teenage pregnancy
    3. Kikuko gives Shuichi sake for his hangover; Kikuko's friend's abortion (March)
    4. Shingo talks to Kikuko on the train to hospital; she wants to stay with them
  9. The Bell in Spring
    1. Kamakura's 700th anniversary; the double suicide in the newspaper (Sunday, in April by 11.3)
    2. The sewing machine; a camellia bonsai at the tobacconist's
    3. Procession of little princes; Yosano poem; tea stall; the accident
    4. Shingo looks for a kimono for Satoko; Kikuko puts on mask
  10. The Kite's House
    1. The call of the kite; the aodaisho snake (mid-May)
    2. Shuichi tells Shingo on the train of Kikuko's abortion yesterday; he is furious (late May by 11.2)
    3. Fusako goes to the post-office and Shingo talks to Kikuko about the abortion; she goes home to her family the next day (late June?/late May by 11.2)
  11. A Garden in the Capital
    1. Fusako becomes hostile towards Shingo; they discuss Aihara's disappearance (early July?/late May by 11.2)
    2. Eiko calls Shingo; Shingo calls Kikuko at the Sagamis' (late May)
    3. Shingo meets Kikuko at Shinjuku Gardens
    4. Eiko tells Shingo that Shuichi paid for Kikuko's abortion with money from Kinu(ko)
  12. The Scar
    1. Shingo cuts down the yatsude (Sunday)
    2. Kikuko's return with presents for the family; the electric razor
    3. The vacuum cleaner; Shingo's dream about American beards, and a girl
    4. Platonic love for Kikuko? a cab-ride with geisha
  13. In the Rain
    1. Aihara attempts suicide with woman; newspaper article; divorce notice
    2. Shingo wonders: Am I a murderer? Eiko reveals Kinu(ko) is pregnant (June)
    3. Kinu(ko) is four months pregnant
  14. The Cluster of Mosquitoes
    1. Shingo goes to the Ikeda house
    2. Kinu(ko) returns home; she says the child is not Shuichi's
    3. Shingo goes to a geisha; his dream about a uniform and a tree of mosquitoes
  15. The Snake's Egg
    1. On a train journey, Shingo ponders a friend's possible suicide (late August)
    2. Yasuko says Kikuko may be pregnant again; dream about eggs (Saturday by 15.3)
    3. The lotus articles; Kikuko denies she is pregnant (Sunday)
    4. Shingo talks to Shuichi; Kikuko calls Shingo, to meet him at the Tokyo station
  16. Fish in Autumn
    1. Shingo forgets how to tie his tie (October)
    2. The girl on the train and her "father"
    3. Discusses his mistake with Shuichi
    4. The ear story (Sunday)
    5. Dinner; Shingo suggests a trip to his old home next Sunday

List of characters

The Ogata household

(Japanese-style age determined by years lived in/Western-style age by birthdays)

  • Shingo (62-3/61-2) and Yasuko (63-4/62-3)
  • Shuichi, Shingo's son, and his wife Sagara Kikuko (early 20s)
  • Fusako (30/28 or 29), the daughter and her own daughters Satoko (4-5/3-4) and baby Kuniko (2-3/1-2)

Shingo's friends and colleagues

  • the dead cabinet-maker Tatsumi, who had six daughters, died 3 or 4 years ago 2.3
  • dead Aida, a former director of Shingo's company, who died the year before 2.3
  • Eiko Tanizaki (early 20s), the office girl for 3 years, schoolfriend of Kitamoto's daughter
  • dead Toriyama 4.3
  • Suzumoto 5.2
  • dead Mizuta 5.2
  • Unno 5.2
  • Itakura, the old President of the company 6.3
  • dead Kitamoto (lost three sons; died during air-raids) 7.1
  • Kitamoto's family taking refuge in Gifu Prefecture 7.1
  • Natsuko Iwamura, who replaced Eiko Tanizaki 11.2, 11.4, 13.2

Others

  • Kayo, the sacked maid 1.1
  • Kinu(ko), the widowed mistress of Shuichi
  • Kinu(ko)'s housemate, "the Ikeda woman", Mrs Ikeda, two or three years younger (13.3) 7.3
  • Her small son 14.1
  • Aihara, Fusako's dissolute husband and his arthritic mother
  • Yasuko's father, fond of bonsai 3.2, 9.2
  • Yasuko's dead sister, older than Shingo 1.4, 9.2, 9.4, 16.1, 16.2
  • Yasuko's aunt (80s), and her son, present head of Yasuko's family, in Shinano 4.2
  • A local lady 5.4
  • Grandfather Amamiya 5.4 and his son 8.4
  • Boat company president and wife 9.1
  • Old man and paralysed boy 9.1
  • Tobacconist who keeps bonsai 9.2
  • Dancing girl and her mother 9.3
  • A friend of Kikuyo who takes tea ceremony lessons 9.4
  • Lotus doctor (69 years old) 10.3, 15.3
  • The Sagaras, family of Kikuko 10.3, 15.4
  • Younger sister of a friend of Shuichi's 12.3
  • Shingo's friend with the Kazan picture 12.3
  • Two elderly geisha and three young geisha 12.4
  • Aihara's new girlfriend (25 or 26) 13.1
  • Friend who wants to see geishas 13.1, 13.3
  • Friend dying of liver cancer 14.1, 15.4
  • His wife, dead seven years ago, eldest son, five grandchildren 15.4
  • Miyamoto, owner of factory with cyanide 14.1
  • Red-haired foreigner 15.1
  • Male prostitute 15.1
  • Girl on train, her "father", five or six men with maple branches 16.2, 16.3

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Rat snakes are a large, polyphyletic, group of snakes from the Colubrid subfamily Colubrinae. ... Binomial name Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn. ... Pointers pointing stance A pointing breed is a type of gundog typically used in finding game. ... Binomial name Cedrus deodara (Roxb. ... Species Thuja koraiensis Thuja occidentalis Thuja plicata Thuja standishii Thuja sutchuenensis Thuja (pronounced Thuya) is a genus of coniferous trees in the Cupressaceae (cypress family). ... Binomial name Thuja standishii (Gordon) Carr. ... Species About 115. ... Binomial name Pinus densiflora Siebold & Zucc. ... Binomial name Zelkova serrata (Thunb. ... Species See text. ... Species Liriodendron chinense (Hemsl. ... Species About 100, see text A rose is a flowering shrub of the genus Rosa, and the flower of this shrub. ... Species Chrysanthemum aphrodite Chrysanthemum arcticum Chrysanthemum argyrophyllum Chrysanthemum arisanense Chrysanthemum boreale Chrysanthemum chalchingolicum Chrysanthemum chanetii Chrysanthemum crassum Chrysanthemum glabriusculum Chrysanthemum hypargyrum Chrysanthemum indicum Chrysanthemum japonense Chrysanthemum japonicum Chrysanthemum lavandulifolium Chrysanthemum mawii Chrysanthemum maximowiczii Chrysanthemum mongolicum Chrysanthemum morii Chrysanthemum okiense Chrysanthemum oreastrum Chrysanthemum ornatum Chrysanthemum pacificum Chrysanthemum potentilloides Chrysanthemum shiwogiku Chrysanthemum... Species Many: see text. ... Marguerite (English Margaret, Spanish Margarita, from the Greek for pearl) was the first name of Queen Marguerite de Valois, wife of Henry IV of France and Navarre. ... Species 30 species, 20,000 cultivars Dahlia is a genus of bushy, summer- and autumn-flowering, tuberous perennials that are originally from Mexico, where they are the national flower. ... Species About 1,300; see List of Acacia species For Acacia Research Corporation, see Acacia Technologies. ... In the English language this is called the bell cricket. ... In the English language this is called the bell cricket. ... Binomial name Struthio camelus Linnaeus, 1758 The ostrich (Struthio camelus) is a flightless bird native to Africa. ... Superfamilies and Families Snakes (from Old English snaca, and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European base snag- or sneg-, to crawl), also known as ophidians, are cold blooded legless reptiles closely related to lizards, which share the order Squamata. ... A gourd is a hollow, dried shell of a fruit in the Cucurbitaceae family of plants. ... The term vine was originally a term for the plant on which grapes grew, from the word for wine (Greek oinos), for which grapes were grown. ... Pigeon redirects here. ... 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Cultural references

A summer grove, Kamakura; a Buddha he may be,
But a handsome man he also is, Lord Sakyamuni. (should have been "Amitabha")
  • Shichi-Go-San ("Seven-Five-Three Day", November 15) 9.3
  • Taigu Ryokan (1757/8-1831) 9.3
In the heavens, a high wind. (Shingo's is a forgery)
All very stupid. (last words)
  • Kazan Watanabe (1793-1841) 12.3, 12.4
A stubborn crow in the dawn: the rains of June. Kazan (ink wash)
I try to forget this senile love; a chilly autumn shower. (haiku)
Spoilers end here.

The Sound of the Mountain is unusually long for a Kawabata novel, running to 276 pages in its English translation. As is characteristic of much of his work, it is written in short, spare prose akin to poetry, which Seidensticker himself likened to a haiku in the introduction to his translation of Kawabata's most well-known novel, Snow Country. This mikoshi enshrines Tokugawa Ieyasu at the Toshogu in Nikko A mikoshi (神輿、みこし) is a portable Shinto shrine that serves as the vehicle of a divine spirit in Japan at the time of a parade of deities. ... The Kabukiza in Ginza is one of Tokyos leading kabuki theaters. ... Shigaraki (信楽町; -cho) is a town located in Kōka District, Shiga, Japan. ... A kotatsu is a low, open wooden frame covered by a blanket, upon which a table top sits. ... Obi can refer to: a sash worn with a kimono or with the uniforms used by practitioners of certain martial arts Obi Islands, in the Moluccas Obi Island, Java Sea, in the Java Sea OBI (store), an European home improvement store chain based in Germany. ... Tea leaves in a gaiwan. ... Noh performance at Itsukushima Shrine, Miyajima, Hiroshima Noh or Nō (Japanese: 能) is a major form of classical Japanese musical drama that has been performed since the 14th century. ... The Muromachi period (Japanese: 室町時代, Muromachi-jidai, also known as the Muromachi era, the Muromachi bakufu, the Ashikaga era, the Ashikaga period, or the Ashikaga bakufu) is a division of Japanese history running from approximately 1336 to 1573. ... Hideyoshi in old age. ... Thunder god Tawaraya Sōtatsu (俵屋宗達; fl. ... Kamakura can refer to: The city of Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan The Kamakura Shogunate period in the History of Japan The Kamakura family name in Japan This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (October 2, 1869 – January 30, 1948) (Devanagari: मोहनदास करमचन्द गांधी, Gujarati મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી), called Mahatma Gandhi, was the charismatic leader who brought the cause of Indias independence from British colonial rule to world attention. ... Fumio Niwa (丹羽文雄, born in 1904 in Mie Prefecture, Japan, died April 20, 2005) was a Japanese novelist with a long list of works, including The Buddha Tree. ... A cigarette will burn to ash on one end. ... Amida Buddha, Kotokuin The Great Buddha of Kamakura (大仏, daibutsu) is a monumental outdoor bronze statue of Amida Buddha in the Kotokuin Temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. ... Yosano Akiko (与謝野 晶子 Yosano Akiko, December 7, 1878 - May 29, 1942) was a Japanese author and poet. ... Crowds of visitors in Kamakura (Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine) Big Buddha at Kotokuin Kamakura (Japanese: 鎌倉市; -shi) is a city located in Kanagawa, Japan, about 50 km south-south-west of Tokyo (to which it is linked by the railway line to Yokosuka). ... A stone image of the Buddha. ... Standing Buddha, ancient region of Gandhara, northern Pakistan, 1st century CE. Gautama Buddha was a South Asian spiritual leader who lived between approximately 563 BCE and 483 BCE. Born Siddhartha Gautama in Sanskrit, a name meaning descendant of Gotama whose aims are achieved/who is efficacious in achieving aims, he... Amitabha Buddha and his two acolytes, Mahasthamaprapta and Avalokitesvara Amitābha is a celestial Buddha described in the scriptures of Mahāyāna Buddhism. ... Japanese girls at a shrine, dressed up for the Shichi-Go-San festival Shichi-Go-San (七五三, literally seven-five-three) is a traditional rite of passage and festival day in Japan for three and seven year-old girls and three and five year-old boys, held annually on November 15. ... November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 46 days remaining. ... This article is about the Zen monk. ... Forgery is the process of making or adapting objects or documents (see false document), with the intention to deceive. ... Noh performance at Itsukushima Shrine, Miyajima, Hiroshima Noh or Nō (Japanese: 能) is a major form of classical Japanese musical drama that has been performed since the 14th century. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... A tea ceremony is a ritualised form of making tea. ... A tea ceremony is a ritualised form of making tea. ... This article is about a Japanese historical era. ... Juban can refer to: Juban, Sorsogon, a municipality in the Philippines Juban, a Jewish Cuban The Juban Inari Shrine or Juban Horse Grounds in Azabu, Japan This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... The Waltz of the Snowflakes from Tchaikovskys The Nutcracker. ... Frédéric François Chopin as portrayed by Eugène Delacroix in 1838. ... Insert non-formatted text here Combatants Imperial Russia Empire of Japan Strength 500,000 Soldiers 400,000 Soldiers Casualties 25,331 Killed 146,032 Wounded 47,387 Killed 173,425 Wounded Greater Manchuria, Russian (outer) Manchuria is region to upper right in lighter Red; Liaodong Peninsula is the wedge extending... Mori Ogais statue at his birthhouse in Tsuwano-cho Mori Ogai (森 鴎外 Mori Ōgai, February 17, 1862 - July 9, 1922) was a Japanese physician, novelist and poet. ... Yosa Buson, or Yosa no Buson (与謝蕪村, 1716 – December 25, 1784), was a Japanese poet and painter from the Edo period. ... Haiku (俳句)is a mode of Japanese poetry, a late 19th century revision by Masaoka Shiki of the older hokku (発句), the opening verse of a linked verse form, haikai no renga . ... Haiku (俳句)is a mode of Japanese poetry, a late 19th century revision by Masaoka Shiki of the older hokku (発句), the opening verse of a linked verse form, haikai no renga . ... Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Biwa trout (Oncorhynchus masou subsp) Trout is the common name given to a number of species of freshwater fish belonging to the salmon family, Salmonidae. ... Haiku (俳句)is a mode of Japanese poetry, a late 19th century revision by Masaoka Shiki of the older hokku (発句), the opening verse of a linked verse form, haikai no renga . ... Snow Country is the first novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author Kawabata Yasunari. ...



 

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