Shingo observes and questions his relations with the other family members. At the same time, he is repeatedly confronted with the passing away of friends and former fellow students. He is experiencing temporary lapses of memory, recalling strange and disturbing dreams upon waking, and hearing sounds, including the titular noise which awakens him from his sleep, "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. Shingo Ogata, a 62-year-old businessman living in Kamakura and working in Tokyo, is close to retirement. The Sound of the Mountain ( Japanese: 山の音, Hepburn: Yama no oto) is a novel by Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata, serialized between 19, and first published as a standalone book in 1954 by Chikuma Shobō, Tokyo.
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