川端康成 | Yasunari Kawabata

Legal name: 川端康成

Transliterated name: Kawabata, Yasunari

Birth place: Osaka, Japan

Birth date: 14 June 1899

Death date: 16 April 1972

Language: Japanese

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Palm-of-the-Hand Stories

1988

Library edition: 2006 edition, 1st printing

Tuttle

ISBN 978-4-8053-0653-6

Trade paperback, xiv+238 pages

¥1,600

Notes:

• Translated by Lane Dunlop and J. Martin Holman.

• 70 miniature stories, the only speculative story being 'Immortality', written in 1963.

Fiction: A Sunny Place // The Weaker Vessel // The Girl Who Approached the Fire // A Saw and Childbirth // The

Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket // The Ring // Hair // Canaries // Harbor Town // Photograph // The White

Flower // The Incident of the Dead Face // Glass // The O-Shin Jizo // The Sliding Rock // Thank You // The

Silverberry Thief // Summer Shoes // A Child's Viewpoint // Love Suicides // The Maidens' Prayers // Towards

Winter // The Sparrow's Matchmaking // The Hat Incident // One Person's Happiness // There Is a God // Goldfish

on the Roof // Mother // Morning Nails // The Young Lady of Suruga // Yuriko // God's Bones // A Smile Outside

the Night Stall // The Blind Man and the Girl // The Wife's Search // Her Mother's Eye // Thunder in Autumn //

Household // The Rainy Station // At the Pawnshop // Lavatory Buddhahood // The Man Who Did Not Smile //

Samurai Descendant // The Rooster and the Dancing Girl // Makeup // The Bound Husband // Sleeping Habit //

Umbrella // Death Mask // Faces // The Younger Sister's Clothes // The Wife of the Autumn Wind // A Pet Dog's

Safe Birthing // Hometown // Water // The Silver Fifty-Sen Pieces // Tabi // The Jay // Bamboo-Leaf Boats //

Eggs // The Snakes // Autumn Rain // The Neighbors // Up in the Tree // Riding Clothes // Immortality // Earth

// The White Horse // Snow // Gleanings from Snow Country