Yasunari Kawabata

The novel Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata exposes the emerging movement from tradition to westernization in post-war Japan. Kawabata enriches his novel with a variety of intricate relationships between children and their parents, exposing how the loss of tradition begins at home. Ironically, Kawabata then depicts how even teachers of tradition manipulate it with their hate and jealousy to achieve their sinister motives, tainting the new generation’s knowledge of tradition and thus moving them

The setting is the basis upon which the story of a novel develops, as it has a tremendous effect on what happens in the story. In the novel ‘Snow Country’ by Yasunari Kawabata the setting plays a pivotal role in highlighting prominent themes such as, Loneliness, Wasted Love and Wasted Beauty. Snow country is the literal translation of the Japanese title ‘Yukiguni’. The name comes from where the story takes place or rather where the story is ‘set’; a village (rural area) on an island in Japan that

Snow Country is a novel written by Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata. This romantic fictional novel is about a rich man named Shimamura, who travels to a remote mountain area for a retreat and ends up meeting a woman named Komako who later becomes a geisha and Yoko who does not really appear as much but has a huge influence on Shimamura. Komako begins to fall in love with Shimamura, and an affair starts to blossom between Shimamura and , but this ends in a disaster due to Shimamura's apathetic

In his novel, Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata traces a young rich man named Shimamura and his involvement with women who reside in Japan’s snow country. Kawabata notes the existence of the Japanese institution of geisha. Geishas are a long standing tradition of Japan dating back to the eighteenth century at a young age, girls learn to become entertainers and social companions that engage their clients in conversation and their perfected dance, music, and ceremonies. Along with geisha, a recurring

The story snow country by “Yasunari Kawabata, is written in third person point of view by the protagonist named Shimamura. Snow country is a tale of love affairs, the story is about Shimamura, a westernized upper- class man of Tokyo would leave his wife and kids in Tokyo. To makes a series of visit to a hot springs town resort in snow country japan. While on the train, Shimamura was taken by a girl beauty; named Yoko.she was with a sick person named yukio. He develops a relationship with a girl

bonds between humans and either animals or other people. One of the texts was Monkey See, Monkey Do, Monkey Connect by de Waal. The second text was When Mr.Pirzada Came to Dine by Jhumpa Lahiri. Lastly, The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket by Yasunari Kawabata. People form bonds by mimicry, a common fear, and observation or memories. The first text, Monkey See, Monkey Do, Monkey Connect, showed several bonds being formed. The main bond in this short story was formed by the mimicry of one another

The “Outsider” in Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea and Wonderful Fool    The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea  Wonderful Fool   In designing the characters in a novel, frequently, an author includes a character who finds himself on the outside of the accepted society. This outsider character often finds himself at a disadvantage. The mere fact that he is unfamiliar in his society tends to create problems for the character to solve. After solving these problems, the character leaves

Yukio Mishima’s novel The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea, represents the conflicts between pre-WW2 Japan and post-WW2 Japan, the author constructs the novel with characters whose lives are pulled into conflicting directions that portray the changing culture of Japan during that era. In the novel Fusako, the mother of Noboru and the girlfriend of Ryuji, is a woman who is caught up by conflicts, that many post-WWII Japanese women would face, which take place in her life and are direct cause

In The Sound of Waves, Yukio Mishima creates an exquisite story which has strong idealistic and mythic features. Although Mishima writes of young love and tranquility in The Sound of Waves, his later works are categorized as aggressive and containing violent sexual actions. Even Mishima himself referred to The Sound of Waves as "that great joke on the public" (qtd. in Ishiguro 385). However, one cannot compare this novel to Mishima’s other literary pieces; in order to classify it as romanticized

Kingyo (which means “goldfish” in Japanese) is a short film by the Malaysian filmmaker Edmund Yeo. It is based on Yasunari Kawabata’s 1924 short story “Canaries”. He’s previous efforts, which include short films like "Chicken rice mystery", "Fleeting images" and "Love suicides" showcased his talent effectively.While in "Kingyo", his first Japanese language short film, it’s clearly visible that he has only taken his talent in the forward direction. The film, which wonderfully depicts love, loss and