In a novel titled for this substance, a character with a dream diary realizes that his love interest did not burn a letter in which he claimed to have lost all respect for women. That novel titled for this substance begins with the discovery of a dead black dog at the top of a waterfall. This substance titles a novel that is followed by Runaway Horses and begins a series of novels linked by a motif of a row of three moles on reincarnated characters. The line “The (*) train came out of the long tunnel” begins a novel titled for this (10[1])substance that ends with a man feeling the Milky Way flow inside him as a cocoon warehouse burns down. This substance titles a novel in which a lover of ballet travels to a remote hot spring town and meets Komako. For 10 points, Shimamura has an affair with a geisha in a novel titled for a “country” of what substance, written by Yasunari Kawabata? ■END■