Living through illusions is possibly averting the true beauty of liveliness and passion. Kawabata is completely conscious of this flaw of living life through fantasies and principles. In Yasunari Kawabata novel, Snow Country, the illusions that Shimamura, the main character, has established around a geisha, Komako, hinders his capability to discover genuine love with her. She is a mountain geisha employed in a solitary aged winter resort. He discovers a slight tragedy in her positon, of a wasted beauty, fated to wither away like the autumn leaves of the mountains that encompass her. This concept of her tragic beauty intensifies her appeal; it is the illusion that influences his very interpretation of her. Nonetheless Komako declines and denies
