A writer follows his fiancée Setsuko, who is dying of tuberculosis, to a mountain sanatorium, where they spend a hushed last season together watching her paintings and the seasons fade. After her death he spends a snowbound winter alone in a mountain cabin, reading and writing to come to terms with the loss.
Books mentioned in The Wind Has Risen (1)
Requiem by Rainer Maria Rilke: “A small parcel had arrived: Rilke's Requiem (Chinkon-ka), ordered long ago, forwarded from place to place with two or three other books. That night, by the fireplace, listening now and then to the wind, I began to read Rilke's Requiem. [auto-translated]”