Snow Country

-An interior illustration for Snow Country by Yasumari Kawabata

The book is about a dance art researcher named Shimamura in Tokyo who travels three times to a hot spring inn in the snow country, and the emotional entanglement between a local geisha named Komako and a young girl named Yoko. I created the work based on the first two sentences of the book: 

“The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country. The earth lay white under the night sky.”

Excellence Award, 64th Annual Design Exhibition, Art Directors Association of Iowa (ADAI)

 

Mocked up version