Nobel prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's is widely considered to be The Writer's masterpiece, a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan. At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow b...Nobel prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's is widely considered to be The Writer's masterpiece, a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan. At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, shimamura, a wealthy dilettante meets komako, a lowly geisha.