Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes…

Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes…

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…

First published in 1958, this collection is concerned with forms of presence and absence, with being, with memory and loss of memory, with not-knowing, and with the lives of people…

This study of Yasunari Kawabata, Japan’s first Nobel laureate for literature, aims both to reinforce the extraordinary phenomenon of scholarly neglect of one of Japan’s 20th-century literary giants and to…