Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972)

Birthplace:
Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Born:
June 14, 1899

Died:
April 16, 1972

Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award.

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Author:
1933  The Dancing Girl of Izu

Novel:
1933  The Dancing Girl of Izu
1936  Mr. Thank You
1952  The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
1953  Reminiscence
1954  Mother's First Love
1954  Sound of the Mountain
1956  A Rainbow at Every Turn
1959  Windy Street
1963  Twin Sisters of Kyoto
1965  With Beauty and Sorrow
1966  Woman of the Lake
1968  The House of the Sleeping Virgins
1969  Thousand Cranes
1974  The Izu Dancer
1980  Koto: The Ancient City
1985  Sadness and Beauty
1995  House of Sleeping Beauties
2001  Bellas durmientes
2005  Koto
2006  House of the Sleeping Beauties
2007  Nemureru bijo
2016  The Old Capital
2019  One Arm
2019  The Master of Funerals
2022  Snow Country

Original Story:
1926  A Page of Madness
1930  Asakusa kurenaidan
1933  The Dancing Girl of Izu
1935  Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
1936  Mr. Thank You
1951  Dancing Girl
1952  The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
1953  Reminiscence
1954  Dancing Girls of Izu
1954  Mother's First Love
1954  Sound of the Mountain
1956  A Rainbow at Every Turn
1956  Family of Sorrow
1957  Snow Country
1958  Woman Unveiled
1959  Windy Street
1960  The Izu Dancer
1963  Twin Sisters of Kyoto
1965  Snow Country
1965  With Beauty and Sorrow
1966  Woman of the Lake
1968  The House of the Sleeping Virgins
1969  Thousand Cranes
1974  The Izu Dancer
1980  Koto: The Ancient City
1985  Sadness and Beauty
1995  House of Sleeping Beauties
2001  Bellas durmientes
2002  Shinshun! Love stories
2005  Koto
2006  House of the Sleeping Beauties
2007  Nemureru bijo
2008  A Girl in the Sunset
2008  Kataude
2009  Kingyo
2009  Love Suicides
2010  Kaidan Horror Classics
2016  The Old Capital
2019  One Arm
2019  The Master of Funerals
2022  Snow Country

Script Supervisor:
1926  A Page of Madness
1930  Asakusa kurenaidan
1933  The Dancing Girl of Izu
1935  Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
1936  Mr. Thank You
1951  Dancing Girl
1951  Repast
1952  The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
1953  Reminiscence
1954  Dancing Girls of Izu
1954  Mother's First Love
1954  Sound of the Mountain
1956  A Rainbow at Every Turn
1956  Family of Sorrow
1957  Snow Country
1958  Woman Unveiled
1959  Windy Street
1960  The Izu Dancer
1963  Twin Sisters of Kyoto
1965  Snow Country
1965  With Beauty and Sorrow
1966  Woman of the Lake
1968  The House of the Sleeping Virgins
1969  Thousand Cranes
1974  The Izu Dancer
1980  Koto: The Ancient City
1985  Sadness and Beauty
1995  House of Sleeping Beauties
2001  Bellas durmientes
2002  Shinshun! Love stories
2005  Koto
2006  House of the Sleeping Beauties
2007  Nemureru bijo
2008  A Girl in the Sunset
2008  Kataude
2009  Kingyo
2009  Love Suicides
2010  Kaidan Horror Classics
2016  The Old Capital
2019  One Arm
2019  The Master of Funerals
2022  Snow Country

Writer:
1926  A Page of Madness
1930  Asakusa kurenaidan
1933  The Dancing Girl of Izu
1935  Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
1936  Mr. Thank You
1951  Dancing Girl
1951  Repast
1952  The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
1953  Reminiscence
1954  Dancing Girls of Izu
1954  Mother's First Love
1954  Sound of the Mountain
1956  A Rainbow at Every Turn
1956  Family of Sorrow
1957  Snow Country
1958  Woman Unveiled
1959  Windy Street
1960  The Izu Dancer
1963  Twin Sisters of Kyoto
1965  Snow Country
1965  With Beauty and Sorrow
1966  Woman of the Lake
1968  The House of the Sleeping Virgins
1969  Thousand Cranes
1974  The Izu Dancer
1980  Koto: The Ancient City
1985  Sadness and Beauty
1995  House of Sleeping Beauties
2001  Bellas durmientes
2002  Shinshun! Love stories
2005  Koto
2006  House of the Sleeping Beauties
2007  Nemureru bijo
2008  A Girl in the Sunset
2008  Kataude
2009  Kingyo
2009  Love Suicides
2010  Kaidan Horror Classics
2016  The Old Capital
2019  One Arm
2019  The Master of Funerals
2022  Snow Country

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