Author | Tatsuo Hori |
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Original title | 風立ちぬ Kaze tachinu |
Translator | Ineko Sato (1947) Eiichi Hayashi (1956) Mikio Kawamura (1967) Francis B. Tenny (2007) |
Language | Japanese |
Publisher | Kaizō (magazine) Bungei Shunjū (magazine) Shinjoen (magazine) Shinchō (magazine) Noda Shobo (book) |
Publication date | 1936–38 |
Publication place | Japan |
Published in English | 1947, 1956, 1967, 2007 |
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The Wind Has Risen (風立ちぬ, Kaze tachinu) is a Japanese novel by Tatsuo Hori, published between 1936 and 1938,[1] and is regarded as his most acknowledged work.[2][3] The story is set in a sanitarium in Nagano, Japan, where the nameless protagonist resides with his fiancée Setsuko, who has been diagnosed with tuberculosis.