Yasunari Kawabata
1899 – 1972 · Japan · Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1968
First Japanese literature laureate; Snow Country and The Old Capital.
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Who shaped Yasunari Kawabata, and who they shaped
Inherited from1
- Murasaki Shikibu
973 – 1014 · Literature
Kawabata's Nobel lecture claims Genji's aesthetic of transience as his inheritance.
Passed the work to1
- Kenzaburō Ōe
1935 – 2023 · Literature
Ōe's Nobel lecture defines his work against Kawabata's 'beautiful Japan'.
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