Shortly after World War II Shusako Endo, having graduated in French Literature from Keio University in Tokyo, was the first Japanese who went to study in France, where he devoted himself to twentieth-century French Catholic literature – the works of Muriac, Bernanos Claudel, Maritain, et al. at the University of Lyons.
The change of seasons is most clearly distinguishable in the appearances of mountains. Councurrently with snow-melting, the yellowish green colored sprouts of plants attract our attention and tell us the advent of spring on mountains. And when the leaves change their colour from fresh green to dark green, we are informed that the rainy seasons is over and the summer is setting in.