![]() Komako is often drunk, tells Shimamura to leave, then to stay, begs him to be with her, declines to lie with him, agrees to bathe with him and later rushes off home. Shimamura feels she is becoming too deeply involved with him but seems unable to stop it, returning a third time to be with her. Their relationship is complicated and filled with emotional upheaval on the part of Komako. However, he is not interested in another geisha presented to him for his sexual needs and eventually becomes involved with Komako. He is entranced with her cleanliness but decides he would rather simply remain friends with her, looking ahead to the possibility of future visits to the town with his family. ![]() Her name is Komako and she is not yet a licensed geisha when he first meets her. Shimamura is headed to a hot spring resort town where he hopes to see a geisha he met on a previous trip. The woman's name, he will later learn, is Yoko. The man's name is Yukio and he is the son of a music teacher in the village where Shimamura is bound. The woman is accompanied by an ill gentleman. ![]() Shimamura is taken by the girl's voice, which he says rings out clearly. The story opens with a man named Shimamura on a train bound for a resort town in the snow country of Japan. ![]()
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