Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other's black or white stones. The competition between the Master of Go and his opponent, Otake, is waged over several months and layered in ceremony. But beneath the...

Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other's black or white stones. Simple in its fundamentals, infinitely complex in its execution, Go is an essential expression of the Japanese spirit. And in his...

Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1899 and before the Second World War had established himself as his country's leading novelist. Among his major works are Snow Country, A Thousand Cranes and The Master of Go. Awarded the...

Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata's Thousand Cranes is a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead. While attending a traditional tea ceremony in the aftermath of his parents'...

Schneeland: Roman

Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata's The Sound of the Mountain is a beautiful rendering of the predicament of old age - the gradual, reluctant narrowing of a human life, along with the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate its...

„Ein Kirschbaum im Winter“ von Yasunari Kawabata ist eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten, die die Schönheit und Vergänglichkeit des Lebens thematisieren. Kawabata, bekannt für seine lyrische und eindringliche Prosa, fängt in diesen...

"Mil grullas" (im Original "Senbazuru") ist ein Roman des japanischen Autors Yasunari Kawabata, der für seine poetische und eindringliche Prosa bekannt ist. Die Geschichte dreht sich um Kikuji Mitani, einen jungen Mann, der in die...