A review by briancrandall
The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata

4.0

Then the sun, which had been caught until that moment on the roof of the pawnshop’s storehouse at the end of the street running from east to west, slipped down without a sound.

Ah. In that instant all the people walking on the street sighed a bit and slackened their pace by three steps. But they did not notice that they had done so.

However, the children playing at the east end of the street looked to the west. They all crouched down, braced themselves, and jumped. They were trying to catch sight of the sun.

“I can see it!”

“I can see it!”

“I can see it!”

“You’re lying. You can’t see it at all—” [161]