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Yasunari Kawabata

Born

in Osaka, Japan

June 14, 1899

Died

April 16, 1972

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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Yasunari Kawabata (川端康成) was a Japanese short story writer and novelist whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read today.
Nobel Lecture: 1968
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Average rating: 3.66 · 142,880 ratings · 16,454 reviews · 425 distinct works • Similar authors

	Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator) 3.56 avg rating — 42,939 ratings — published 1948 — 264 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thousand Cranes 3.69 avg rating — 16,128 ratings — published 1952 — 163 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beauty and Sadness 3.79 avg rating — 15,678 ratings — published 1963 — 129 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator) 3.84 avg rating — 9,779 ratings — published 1954 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator), Yukio Mishima (Introduction) 3.60 avg rating — 9,316 ratings — published 1961 — 79 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata, J. Martin Holman (Translator), Vanja Lantz (Translator) 3.73 avg rating — 8,073 ratings — published 1962 — 114 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La casa de las bellas durmientes 3.49 avg rating — 8,445 ratings — published 1961 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator) 3.81 avg rating — 5,783 ratings — published 1951 — 79 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata, J. Martin Holman (Translator) 3.63 avg rating — 3,724 ratings — published 1926 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Palm of the Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata, Lane Dunlop (Translator), J. Martin Holman (Translator) 3.89 avg rating — 3,435 ratings — published 1971 — 71 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Yasunari Kawabata

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“As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

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“Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Yasunari Kawabata

tags: beauty-and-sadness

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