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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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    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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  • 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 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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  • 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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    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: 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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  • 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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    popular. The following year he started the magazine Bungei-Jidai with Yasunari Kawabata and others. Yokomitsu and others involved in Bungei-Jidai were known...
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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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  • was a pre-war Japanese literary group led by Riichi Yokomitsu and Yasunari Kawabata which focused on exploring "new impressions" or "new perceptions"...
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    internationally, leading to two Japanese Nobel laureates in literature, namely Yasunari Kawabata and Kenzaburō Ōe. Before the introduction of kanji from China to Japan...
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    1968 Nobel Prize in Literature (category Yasunari Kawabata)
    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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    today." He is the second Japanese Nobel laureate in Literature after Yasunari Kawabata was awarded in 1968. Kenzaburō Ōe's novels about the impact of World...
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  • Nobel Prizes in literature, including Yasunari Kawabata (Japan, 1966), and Kenzaburō Ōe (Japan, 1994). Yasunari Kawabata wrote novels and short stories distinguished...
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  • representation. The film is set in a mental institution in contemporary Japan. Yasunari Kawabata, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, was credited on the...
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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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    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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    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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  • Snow Country authored by Yasunari Kawabata is based upon Takahan Ryokan's location. The inn has preserved the room that Kawabata stayed and wrote in when...
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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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    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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    books), and other modern Japanese culture. Japanese authors such as Yasunari Kawabata and Yukio Mishima became popular literary figures in America and Europe...
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    In The Final Years. Dasu gemaine "Das Gemeine" O'Brien Kawabata Yasunari e "To Yasunari Kawabata" 猿ヶ島 Sarugashima "Monkey Island" O'Brien In The Final...
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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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    needed] This is reflected in the Nobel Prizes awarded in literature. Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972) was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare...
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    her adopted son. Her funeral was officiated by writer and friend Yasunari Kawabata. Hayashi's house in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, was later turned into a...
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