Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.
1 novel by Yasunari Kawabata mapped on Map A Story, each with an interactive map of the book's real-world locations — including history, what's there today, and visitable landmarks.