Yasunari Kawabata

In this Japanese name, the family name is Kawabata.

Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata (14 June 1899–16 April 1972) was a Japanese writer. He was the winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the first Japanese author to receive the award.

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  Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972), Picture when entering upper school.

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  Hatsuyo Itō (1906-1951), to whom Kawabata was briefly engaged in 1921. She was the unrequited love of his life and may have influenced some of his works.

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  Kawabata with his future wife Hideko (秀子code: ja is deprecated ) to his left and her younger sister Kimiko (君子code: ja is deprecated ) to his right (1930).

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  Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972). A picture during the time he was living at Sakuragi-cho in Ueno (上野桜木町).

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  Kawabata at work at his house in Hase, Kamakura (1946)

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• List of Nobel Prize winners by country