Yasunari Kawabata

53 books

The Master of Go
Yasunari Kawabata with Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)

208 pages • first pub 1951 (editions)

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The Master of Go

Yasunari Kawabata with Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)

208 pages • first pub 1951 (editions)

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The Mother of Dreams and Other Short Stories: Portrayals of Women in Modern Japanese Fiction by Makoto Ueda

The Mother of Dreams and Other Short Stories: Portrayals of Women in Modern Japanese Fiction
Makoto Ueda with Kōbō Abe, Karen Kaya Shimizu (Translator), Wei-ming Chen (Translator), Natsume Sōseki, Stuart A. Harrington (Translator), Hiraiwa Yumie, Sakae Tsuboi, Yasushi Inoue, Taiko Hirabayashi, Mark A. Harbison (Translator), Sara Dillon (Translator), Sawako Ariyoshi, Beth Cary (Translator), Fumiko Enchi, Nagai Kafu, Shōhei Ōka, Robert Huey (Translator), Chris Heftel (Translator), Maryellen Toman Mori (Translator), Patricia Lyons (Translator), Yasunari Kawabata, Richard Dasher (Translator), Harumi Setouchi, Seichō Matsumoto, Takeshi Kaikō, Osamu Dazai, Keiko Nakamura (Translator), Agatha Haun (Translator)

279 pages • first pub 1986 (editions)

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The Mother of Dreams and Other Short Stories: Portrayals of Women in Modern Japanese Fiction

Makoto Ueda with Kōbō Abe, Karen Kaya Shimizu (Translator), Wei-ming Chen (Translator), Natsume Sōseki, Stuart A. Harrington (Translator), Hiraiwa Yumie, Sakae Tsuboi, Yasushi Inoue, Taiko Hirabayashi, Mark A. Harbison (Translator), Sara Dillon (Translator), Sawako Ariyoshi, Beth Cary (Translator), Fumiko Enchi, Nagai Kafu, Shōhei Ōka, Robert Huey (Translator), Chris Heftel (Translator), Maryellen Toman Mori (Translator), Patricia Lyons (Translator), Yasunari Kawabata, Richard Dasher (Translator), Harumi Setouchi, Seichō Matsumoto, Takeshi Kaikō, Osamu Dazai, Keiko Nakamura (Translator), Agatha Haun (Translator)

279 pages • first pub 1986 (editions)

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The Old Capital
Yasunari Kawabata with J. Martin Holman (Translator)

182 pages • first pub 1962 (editions)

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The Old Capital

Yasunari Kawabata with J. Martin Holman (Translator)

182 pages • first pub 1962 (editions)

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Other Voices, Other Vistas: China, India, Japan, and Latin America by Barbara H. Solomon

Other Voices, Other Vistas: China, India, Japan, and Latin America
Barbara H. Solomon with Bessie Head (Contributor), Khushwant Singh (Contributor), Carlos Fuentes (Contributor), R.K. Narayan (Contributor), Chen Rong (Contributor), Luisa Valenzuela (Contributor), Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Contributor), Yasunari Kawabata (Contributor), Wang Meng (Contributor), Wang Anyi (Contributor), Kōbō Abe (Contributor), Yūko Tsushima (Contributor), Yukio Mishima (Contributor), Anita Desai (Contributor), Charles Mungoshi (Contributor), Sawako Ariyoshi (Contributor), Ding Ling (Contributor), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Contributor), Lu Wenfu (Contributor), Nadine Gordimer (Contributor), Mahasweta Devi (Contributor), Isabel Allende (Contributor)

480 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

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Other Voices, Other Vistas: China, India, Japan, and Latin America

Barbara H. Solomon with Bessie Head (Contributor), Khushwant Singh (Contributor), Carlos Fuentes (Contributor), R.K. Narayan (Contributor), Chen Rong (Contributor), Luisa Valenzuela (Contributor), Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Contributor), Yasunari Kawabata (Contributor), Wang Meng (Contributor), Wang Anyi (Contributor), Kōbō Abe (Contributor), Yūko Tsushima (Contributor), Yukio Mishima (Contributor), Anita Desai (Contributor), Charles Mungoshi (Contributor), Sawako Ariyoshi (Contributor), Ding Ling (Contributor), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Contributor), Lu Wenfu (Contributor), Nadine Gordimer (Contributor), Mahasweta Devi (Contributor), Isabel Allende (Contributor)

480 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

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Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata

Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
Yasunari Kawabata with J. Martin Holman (Translator), Lane Dunlop (Translator)

288 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)

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Palm-of-the-Hand Stories

Yasunari Kawabata with J. Martin Holman (Translator), Lane Dunlop (Translator)

288 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)

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The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories by Jay Rubin

The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
Jay Rubin with Paul Warham (Translator), Richard Bowring (Translator), Minoru Betsuyaku, Kenji Nakagami, Yōko Ogawa, Royall Tyler (Translator), Ōgai Mori, Noriko Mizuta (Translator), Angus Turvill (Translator), Yūya Satō, Ted Goossen (Translator), Geraldine Harcourt (Translator), Rachel DiNitto (Translator), Aoko Matsuda, Kazumi Saeki, Akiyuki Nosaka, Yukio Mishima, Mieko Kawakami, Hitomi Yoshio (Translator), Richard H. Minear (Translator), Eve Zimmerman (Translator), Yuichi Seirai, Abe Akira, Minako Ohba, Haruki Murakami (Contributor), Koji Uno, Jay Rubin (Translator), Motoyuki Shibata, Brian Bergstrom (Translator), David Boyd (Translator), Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Yūko Tsushima, Doppo Kunikida, Kafū Nagai, Geoffrey W. Sargent (Translator), Taeko Kōno, Lane Dunlop (Translator), Fumiko Enchi, Shin'ichi Hoshi, Sawanishi Yuten, Yasunari Kawabata, Genji Keita, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Banana Yoshimoto, Hyakken Uchida, Tomoyuki Hoshino, Yoko Ota, Natsume Sōseki, Michael Emmerich (Translator), Phyllis Birnbaum (Translator)

562 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

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The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories

Jay Rubin with Paul Warham (Translator), Richard Bowring (Translator), Minoru Betsuyaku, Kenji Nakagami, Yōko Ogawa, Royall Tyler (Translator), Ōgai Mori, Noriko Mizuta (Translator), Angus Turvill (Translator), Yūya Satō, Ted Goossen (Translator), Geraldine Harcourt (Translator), Rachel DiNitto (Translator), Aoko Matsuda, Kazumi Saeki, Akiyuki Nosaka, Yukio Mishima, Mieko Kawakami, Hitomi Yoshio (Translator), Richard H. Minear (Translator), Eve Zimmerman (Translator), Yuichi Seirai, Abe Akira, Minako Ohba, Haruki Murakami (Contributor), Koji Uno, Jay Rubin (Translator), Motoyuki Shibata, Brian Bergstrom (Translator), David Boyd (Translator), Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Yūko Tsushima, Doppo Kunikida, Kafū Nagai, Geoffrey W. Sargent (Translator), Taeko Kōno, Lane Dunlop (Translator), Fumiko Enchi, Shin'ichi Hoshi, Sawanishi Yuten, Yasunari Kawabata, Genji Keita, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Banana Yoshimoto, Hyakken Uchida, Tomoyuki Hoshino, Yoko Ota, Natsume Sōseki, Michael Emmerich (Translator), Phyllis Birnbaum (Translator)

562 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

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The Rainbow
Yasunari Kawabata with Haydn Trowell (Translator)

224 pages • first pub 1951 (editions)

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The Rainbow

Yasunari Kawabata with Haydn Trowell (Translator)

224 pages • first pub 1951 (editions)

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The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa by Yasunari Kawabata

The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
Yasunari Kawabata with Alisa Freedman (Translator)

279 pages • first pub 1929 (editions)

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The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa

Yasunari Kawabata with Alisa Freedman (Translator)

279 pages • first pub 1929 (editions)

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Snow Country
Yasunari Kawabata with Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)

192 pages • first pub 1948 (editions)

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Snow Country

Yasunari Kawabata with Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)

192 pages • first pub 1948 (editions)

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Snow Country & Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata

Snow Country & Thousand Cranes
Yasunari Kawabata with Kazuo Ishiguro (Contributor), Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)

204 pages • first pub 1977 (editions)

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Snow Country & Thousand Cranes

Yasunari Kawabata with Kazuo Ishiguro (Contributor), Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)

204 pages • first pub 1977 (editions)

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