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 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prize...
Beautiful short story, first love, at the first sign. Just like watching from a remote distance, to have a glance to the Japanese life at that particular time. It was quite vivid, as if I was walking with them, feeling the aroma of fresh of the wet mountain and village.