A short story by this author follows a college student's feelings for a performer who turns out to be just a little girl, entitled The Dancing Girl of Izu. One of this writer's novels describes the relationship between Fumiko
A short story by this author follows a college student's feelings for a performer who turns out to be just a little girl, entitled The Dancing Girl of Izu. One of this writer's novels describes the relationship between Fumiko Ota, her mother, and the orphan Kikuji, and focuses on a tea ceremony. This man's journalistic work on Honinbo Shusai's final match led to a novel in which Otake defeats a dying man in the titular [*] game. Shimamura, the protagonist of one this man's works, falls in love with the geisha Komako, a resident of a hot-spring town in the titular region of Japan. For 10, name this Nobel laureate who wrote Thousand Cranes, The Master of Go, and Snow Country.
A short story by this author follows a college student's feelings for a performer who turns out to be just a little girl, entitled The Dancing Girl of Izu.
{Kawabata} Yasunari [accept names in either order]