Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成 Kawabata Yasunari, 11 June 1899 – 16 April 1972)
Subtlety shaped by “orphan spirit” (by himself)
He caught fine nuances of Japanese daily lives to sublimate lyrically, and won the Novel Prize for literature.
In his acceptance speech "Japan the Beautiful and Myself", he introduced Japanese sense of beauty and how Japanese take life and death putting on “Hakama”, a traditional Japanese formal wear.
Notable works:
Snow Country
The Dancing Girl of Izu
The Old Capital
Beauty and Sadness
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
Next author (Soseki Natsume)