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The Wind Rises is the transposition of a real-life experience by the author, as well as a glimpse into Japanese daily life in the first half of the 20th century. The protagonist, upon learning of his girlfriend's precarious health, decides to accompany her to a sanatorium in the Japanese Alps, and thus tries to live by her side the difficult experience, trying to find happiness in the small daily things, in gestures of affection, in the nature that surrounds them, in the blue sky above them. An intimate work dedicated to the deceased girlfriend, this meditation on life, influenced by Marcel Proust, Paul Valéry (the title of the novel is taken from a verse of the poem The cemetery by the sea) and Rainer Maria Rilke, is also a work with a distinctly Japanese breath.