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    Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成, Kawabata Yasunari, 11 June 1899 – 16 April 1972) was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded...
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  • Snow Country (category Novels by Yasunari Kawabata)
    (雪国, Yukiguni, IPA: [jɯkiꜜɡɯɲi]) is a novel by the Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata. The novel is considered a classic work of Japanese literature and...
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  • The Dancing Girl of Izu (category Short stories by Yasunari Kawabata)
    its length, a novella) by Japanese writer and Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata first published in 1926. The narrator, a twenty-year-old student from...
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  • Thousand Cranes (category Novels by Yasunari Kawabata)
    Thousand Cranes (千羽鶴, Senbazuru) is a novel by Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata which first appeared in serialised form between 1949 and 1951 and was...
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  • The Old Capital (category Novels by Yasunari Kawabata)
    writer Yasunari Kawabata first published in 1962. It was one of three novels cited by the Nobel Committee in their decision to award Kawabata the 1968...
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  • The Lake is a short 1954 novel by the Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata. This book tells the story of a former schoolteacher named Gimpei Momoi. The Lake...
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  • (Japanese: 山の音, Hepburn: Yama no oto) is a novel by Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata, serialized between 1949 and 1954, and first published as a standalone...
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  • The Master of Go (category Novels by Yasunari Kawabata)
    the Nobel Prize winning Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata. First published in serial form in 1951, Kawabata considered it his finest work. Sharply distinct...
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    of the 20th century: Yasunari Kawabata, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, and Yukio Mishima. His landmark translations of novels by Kawabata, in particular Snow Country...
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  • Prize, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Dazai Osamu Prize, the Kawabata Yasunari Prize, and the Oda Sakunosuke Prize. Tsumura was born in Osaka, Japan...
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  • Beauty and Sadness (novel) (category Novels by Yasunari Kawabata)
    kanashimi to) is a 1961–63 novel by Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata. The novel is narrated from the present and past perspective of the...
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    Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts (category Films based on works by Yasunari Kawabata)
    the short story Sisters of Asakusa (浅草の姉妹, Asakusa no shimai) by Yasunari Kawabata, it was the director's first sound film. O-Ren, O-Some and Chieko...
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    Mr. Thank You (category Films based on works by Yasunari Kawabata)
    Shimizu. It is based on a short story by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Yasunari Kawabata, and noted for its portrayal of depression-era Japan and its location...
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  • One Arm (category Short stories by Yasunari Kawabata)
    Kataude) is a short story by Japanese writer and Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata. It appeared in serialised form in the literary magazine Shinchō in...
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  • published by magazines and journals. He associated with Nobel laureate Kawabata Yasunari. Shimaki was born in Sapporo, Hokkaidō in 1903. His father died when...
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    1968, but that year the award went to his countryman and benefactor Yasunari Kawabata. His works include the novels Confessions of a Mask and The Temple...
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    Japanese footballer Yasunari Ishimi (born 1943), a Japanese karate expert Yasunari Iwata (岩田 康誠, born 1974), Japanese jockey Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成, 1899–1972)...
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    1968 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972) "for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility...
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  • ryōbun (Territory Of Light) in 1979. In 1983 she was awarded the Kawabata Yasunari Literature Prize for her short story Danmari ichi (The Silent Traders)...
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  • 1954 Yokomitsu Toshikazu to Kawabata Yasunari (横光利一と川端康成 Toshikazu Yokomitsu and Yasunari Kawabata), 1955 Kawabata Yasunari Besuto・Surī ―「Yama no Oto」「Sorihashi...
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    the Denkikan. The golden years of Asakusa are vividly portrayed in Yasunari Kawabata's novel The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa (1930). The area was heavily damaged...
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  • Snow Country is a 1968 novel by Kawabata Yasunari. Snow country or Snow Country may also refer to: Snow country (Japan) (豪雪地帯), a heavy snowfall zone...
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    Information Site: Nonomiya Shrine; Archived 2007-06-26 at archive.today Kawabata, Yasunari. (2006). The Old Capital, p. 27. Kyoto City: Saigu Procession;[permanent...
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  • politician Tomoe Kawabata (川畑 和愛, born 2002), Japanese figure skater Tomoyuki Kawabata (河端 朋之, born 1985), Japanese cyclist Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成, 1899–1972)...
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  • Palm-of-the-Hand Stories (category Short story collections by Yasunari Kawabata)
    no shōsetsu or Tanagokoro no shōsetsu) is the name Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata gave to 146 short stories he wrote during his long career. The earliest...
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  • Hawaii Press. It discusses translated works by Junichiro Tanizaki, Yasunari Kawabata, and Yukio Mishima. The work was intended for readers in Western countries...
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  • The House of the Sleeping Beauties (category Novels by Yasunari Kawabata)
    of the Sleeping Beauties is a 1961 novella by the Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata. It is a story about a lonely man, Old Eguchi, who continuously visits...
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  • Prize in 1987. He has also won the 1981 Izumi Kyoka award, the 1989 Kawabata Yasunari award, and the 1992 Nihon SF Taisho Award. His work is known for its...
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  • influence which Dazai names explicitly in an open letter penned to Yasunari Kawabata. The narrator of The Flowers of Buffoonery uses the masculine first-person...
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    Michael K.; Sakai, Cécile; Hirokazu, Toeda (2018-01-02). "Introduction: Kawabata Yasunari in the twenty-first century". Japan Forum. 30 (1): 2–11. doi:10.1080/09555803...
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