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"The Wind Rises" is Hayao Miyazaki's final original novel. The male protagonist accompanies his fiancée Setsuko who is seriously ill, and goes to the mountains to recuperate and spend the last period of Setsuko's life together. In the isolated Yatsugatake foothills, abandoning the hustle and bustle of the world, only each other remained in their lives. Love becomes more profound in this beautiful scene. Together they appreciate the happiness of life, and are sad that this happiness is tainted with the shadow of death...

"The Wind Rises" is the original work of "The Wind Rises" directed by Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki and nominated for the 86th Academy Award. It is a pure love novel that spans life and death and has touched millions of people. It is an immortal classic that has been handed down from generation to generation. The male protagonist accompanies his fiancée Setsuko who is seriously ill, and goes to the mountains to recuperate, spending the last period of Setsuko's life together. On the isolated Yatsugatake Mountain, they abandoned the hustle and bustle of the world, and only each other remained in their lives. Love becomes more profound in this beautiful scene. Together they appreciate the happiness of life, and are sad that this happiness is tainted with the shadow of death...

"The Wind Rises" is Tatsuo Hori's masterpiece. The novel was published four times in different publications such as "Reform", "Literary Spring and Autumn", "New Women's Garden", and "New Wave" from December 1936 to April 1938, and was finally compiled into a chapter. The work describes the male protagonist accompanying his fiancée Setsuko to recuperate in the mountains. The two seek happiness in life together despite illness but have to face death. It depicts their yearning for happiness, helplessness towards reality, self-reflection and loyalty to love. The novel's writing style is delicate, and the emotions can be seen on the back of the paper, giving the whole work an unforgettable and tragic atmosphere. The work uses a large number of psychological descriptions to directly touch the inner world of people in love, reflecting the author's obvious psychological tendency, especially the appearance of Rilke's "Requiem" in the last part, which finds the spiritual home for the hero and makes the whole story conclude in philosophical reflection. It integrated the quiet lyrical style that began to form in the literature of the Heian Dynasty into its own creation. What he wrote was a "unique love life". This kind of love happiness was cultivated in the lonely life in the mountain sanatorium. It was not a happy happiness, but a "sad happiness", a "life happiness with more or less the breath of death". The novella "Naoko" reflects the hesitation and pursuit of an ordinary woman on the road of life through the description of the complex and subtle psychological activities of the protagonist Naoko surrounding her husband Keisuke Kurokawa and her childhood friend Akira Tsuzuki while she was recuperating in a sanatorium.

The original novel of Hayao Miyazaki's final work "The Wind Rises". The representative work of Tatsuo Hori, the only disciple of Ryunosuke Akutagawa and the master of neopsychology. Hayao Miyazaki said: "This story is dedicated to modern people who are uneasy about the future." The male protagonist accompanies his fiancée Setsuko who is seriously ill, and goes to the mountains to recuperate, and spend the last period of Setsuko's life together. In the isolated Yatsugatake foothills, abandoning the hustle and bustle of the world, only each other remained in their lives. Love becomes more profound in this beautiful scene. Together they appreciate the happiness of life, and are sad that this happiness is tainted with the shadow of death...

"The Wind Rises" tells a beautiful love story between two young people. Their love begins in the summer when everything is lush and ends in the desolate winter. Setsuko in the article is seriously ill. After the hero learns about this, he puts down his work and accompanies Setsuko to the mountains to recuperate. In the isolated Yatsugatake foothills, abandoning the hustle and bustle of the world, only each other remained in their lives. The love becomes more and more profound in this beautiful scene. Together they appreciate the happiness of life, but also feel sad that this happiness is tainted with the shadow of death.