Toad Hall (The Wind in the Willows) Toad Hall (The Wind in the Willows) Toad Hall is the fictional home of Mr. Toad, a character in the 1908 novel, "The Wind in the Willows", by Kenneth Grahame. On his retirement from the Bank of England in 1908, Grahame returned to Blewbury in Berkshire, the county in which he had grown up. In October that year he published "The Wind in the Willows", a novel for children featuring an array of anthropomorphic characters, including Rat (a water vole), Mole, Badger and Toad. Toad lives in a house on the edge of the River Bank, Toad Hall. The novel
The Wind Has Risen a few months at a sanatorium at the foot of Mt. Yatsugatake in 1935. Three films have been produced based on the story. Most recently, Hayao Miyazaki's 2013 film, "Kaze Tachinu" (""The Wind Rises"", Academy Award-nominated for Best Animated Feature), is loosely based on the novel. The Wind Has Risen 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 a main character identified only with the pronoun "I" as he takes care for his fiancée, and then wife,