The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories
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YASUNARI KAWABATA was born in 1899. He described himself as a child without home or family and became, in the novelist Mishima's words, a perpetual traveler. He lost his parents in infancy, his grandmother and only sister died shortly afterward, and he was fourteen when his grandfather died. In
1917 he left his native Osaka to enter a school in Tokyo, and in 1927-three years after graduating from Tokyo Imperial University-he published a short novel, The Izu Dancer. Probably his best-known work, Snow Country, was completed in 1947 and has come to typify the sense of loneliness and chilly
lyricism associated with the world of Kawabata. In his most fertile decade following the end of World War II he produced The Lake, first serialized in 1954, along with two major novels-The Master of Go and The Sound of the Mountain. House of the Sleeping Beauties was published in the early sixties,
and Kawabata was made the first Japanese Nobel laureate for literature in 1968. He died in 1972. EDWARD SEIDENSTICKER, the translator, was born in Colorado. He attended the University of Colorado, and at the outbreak of the Pacific War was assigned to the Navy Language School, where he studied Japanese. After further work at Columbia and Harvard, he settled in Japan in 1948, and spent over ten
years there, the first two as a diplomat. After a spell of teaching at Stanford, in 1966 he became Professor of Japanese at the University of Michigan, and it was during the following years in Ann Arbor that most of The Tale of Genji was translated. He is currently Professor of Japanese at Columbia
University, teaching for half the year, and living the remaining half in Tokyo. Among his other translations are a number of works by Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, Kawabata Yasunari, and Mishima Yukio. In recognition of his role in the introduction of Japanese literature abroad, Professor Seidensticker was awarded the prestigious Kikuchi Kan Prize and the Order of the Rising Sun-one of
the Japanese government's highest honors.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781887178945 |
| ISBN 10 | 1887178945 |
| Title | The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories |
| Author | Yasunari Kawabata |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Counterpoint |
| Year published | 1998-08-29 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
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