Yuki-onna (The Snow Woman)

Caught in a blizzard, two woodcutters shelter in a ferryman's hut. The younger, Minokichi, wakes to find a woman in white breathing over his sleeping companion. She spares him on one condition: that he never tell anyone what he saw. Years later, on an ordinary evening, he breaks his word.

The story is as Japanese as snow country gets, and it was written by a man born in Greece. Hearn collected it for Kwaidan in 1904, and the English you are reading here is closer to the source than the Japanese is.