Tuttle Publishing, 2011. — 165 pages. — ISBN: 9781462902163. Four stories from two of Japan's most beloved and acclaimed fiction writers. "The Izu Dancer" was the story that first introduced Kawabata's prodigious talent to the West. This story was originally published in "The Atlantic Monthly, " in 1958. Stories by Inoue include, The Counterfeiter, Obasute, and The Full Moon....
Vintage, 1996. — 212 pages. — ISBN: 9780307833631.
The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before, and discovers that she is now a painter, living with a younger woman as her lover. Otoko has continued to love Oki and has never forgotten him, but his...
Counterpoint LLC, 1999. — 245 pages. — ISBN: 9781582430225.
The stories of Yasunari Kawabata evoke an unmistakably Japanese atmosphere in their delicacy, understatement, and lyrical description. Like his later works, First Snow on Fuji is concerned with forms of presence and absence, with being, with memory and loss of memory, with not-knowing. Kawabata lets us slide into the...
Kodansha International, 1980. — 151 pages. — ISBN: 0870114263. Nobel prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata is noted for his combination of a traditional Japanese aesthetic with modernist, often surreal trends. In these three tales, superbly translated by Edward Seidensticker, erotic fantasy is underlaid with longing and memories of past loves. In the title story, the...
North Point Pr, 1988. — 255 pages. — ISBN: 0865473250. Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, the novelist Yasunari Kawabata felt the essence of his art was to be found not in his longer works but in a series of short stories-which he called "Palm-of-the-Hand Stories"-written over the span of his career. In them we find loneliness, love, and the passage of time,...
Perigee Books, 1981. — 189 pages. — ISBN: 0399505253.
At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante meets Komako, a lowly geisha. She gives herself to him fully and without remorse, despite knowing that their passion cannot last and that the affair can have only one outcome. In chronicling the course of this doomed...
Counterpoint, 1998. — 175 pages. — ISBN: 9781887178945.
Influential Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata has constructed an autobiography through his fiction with this new collection of stories that parallel major events and themes in his life. In the lyrical prose that is his signature, these 23 tales reflect Kawabata's keen perception, deceptive simplicity, and the deep...
Vintage, 2013. — 197 pages. — ISBN13: 9780307833648.
Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other’s black or white stones. Simple in its fundamentals, infinitely complex in its execution, Go is an essential expression of the Japanese spirit. And in his fictional chronicle of a match played between a revered and heretofore invincible Master and a...
Counterpoint, 2006. — 197 pages. — ISBN: 1593760329.
The Old Capital is one of the three novels cited specifically by the Nobel Committee when they awarded Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. With the ethereal tone and aesthetic styling characteristic of Kawabata's prose, The Old Capital tells the story of Chieko, the adopted daughter of a Kyoto kimono designer,...
Vintage , 2013. — 304 pages. — ISBN: 9780307833655.
Few novels have rendered the predicament of old age more beautifully than The Sound of the Mountain. For in his portrait of an elderly Tokyo businessman, Yasunari Kawabata charts the gradual, reluctant narrowing of a human life, along with the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate its closing.
By day Ogata Shingo is...
Penguin Books, 2011. — 141 pages. — ISBN: 978-0-141-95022-8.
Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father. He is shocked to find there the mistress's rival and successor, Mrs Ota, and that the ceremony has been awkwardly arranged for him to meet his potential future bride. But he is most shocked to be drawn into a relationship with Mrs Ota.
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