Spring in a Snowy Country

In 1920, Kunio YANAGITA quit his job as a bureaucrat and became a part-time employee of the Asahi Shimbun. He traveled all over the country and published a series of essays in newspapers based on his travels in Tohoku. The essay is centered on the book. At the time, famine and poverty were a serious problem in the Tohoku region, and in 1896 an eart…続きを読む