| 1 | For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. | |
| 2 | No, a fine little stallion with legs two yards long. | |
| 3 | Kaoru and Komoto are two milestone characters in Kawabata literature. | |
| 4 | Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine , and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals. | |
| 5 | Kaoru and Komako are heroines in Kawabata's early novel The Izu Dancer and middle novel Snow Country. |