The Wind Has Risen (風立ちぬ - Kaze Tachinu)is a Japanese novel by Hori Tatsuo, written between 1936-37. It is set in a tuberculosis sanitarium in Nagano, Japan. The plot follows the condition of the female character's illness. It was originally serialised in Kaizō.
The title is a quote from Paul Valéry's poem "Le Cimetière marin".
Hayao Miyazaki's 2013 film, The Wind Is Rising, is loosely based on the novel.
Famous quotes containing the words the wind, wind and/or risen:
“As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their ocellated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“The older you get the stronger the wind getsand its always in your face.”
—Jack Nicklaus (b. 1940)
“In view of the fact that the number of people living too long has risen catastrophically and still continues to rise.... Question: Must we live as long as modern medicine enables us to?... We control our entry into life, it is time we began to control our exit.”
—Max Frisch (19111991)