A young artist wanders the countryside as part of an experiment to observe everything around him, including people, from a detached aesthetic perspective similar to that of the artists and poets of the past, in a new translation of a classic novel by an author considered the father of modern Japanese fiction. Original. Features a portrayal of an artist who opposes convention and logic, and shuns emotional involvement. This book is a haikuesque novel infused with the author's musings on art and nature.
