Yasunari Kawabata

Born

in Osaka, Japan

June 14, 1899

Died

April 16, 1972

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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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Yasunari Kawabata’s books

Average rating: 3.74 · 77,173 ratings · 7,516 reviews · 173 distinct works • Similar authors

	Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator) 3.66 avg rating — 20,680 ratings — published 1948 — 151 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 by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator) 3.75 avg rating — 9,576 ratings — published 1952 — 101 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 by Yasunari Kawabata, Howard Hibbett (Translator) 3.85 avg rating — 8,621 ratings — published 1964 — 91 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) 3.90 avg rating — 5,951 ratings — published 1953 — 90 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) 3.65 avg rating — 6,568 ratings — published 1960 — 57 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) 3.84 avg rating — 3,885 ratings — published 1951 — 48 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) 3.77 avg rating — 4,327 ratings — published 1962 — 70 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) 3.96 avg rating — 2,548 ratings — published 1971 — 45 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) 3.76 avg rating — 2,430 ratings — published 1926 — 51 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 Lake by Yasunari Kawabata, Reiko Tsukimura (Translator) 3.65 avg rating — 1,871 ratings — published 1954 — 40 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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Quotes by Yasunari Kawabata

“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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Voting is now open for our theme read for August - Japanese Literature. Voting will stay open until July 14th, 2018 and the winning book will be announced on July 15th, 2018.

The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima

5 votes, 25.0%

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

5 votes, 25.0%

The tale of genji The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

4 votes, 20.0%

Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki

2 votes, 10.0%

The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata

2 votes, 10.0%

The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata

1 vote, 5.0%

The Gate by Natsume Sōseki

1 vote, 5.0%

20 total votes

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