Snow country is representative works by the Japanese writer Kawabata Yasunari, which helps him win the Nobel Prize. The primary research shows that oriental images created in the works are based on the vernacular landscape of Yuemizawa, a snow country in Japan; however, literary works is not a self-contained world of the past. The methodology of literary ethnography intends to illustrate that an interpretation of the text itself from inside provides a way of looking at the world outside. Therefore, Snow Country sets a good example of literary works, meanwhile offers instructions to reconstruct the vernacular landscape of local places. In this way, the reality will be created by the history in texts, in which writers, readers, local people and landscapes are all involved.