One character created by this author is outraged and disheartened when his opponent commits the sealed Move 121. This author 
One character created by this author is outraged and disheartened when his opponent commits the sealed Move 121. This author of a series of brief tales called the Palm-of-the-Hand stories wrote about a student who becomes close with a family of entertainers in "The Dancing Girl of Izu." In another of his novels, the businessman Shimamura has an (*) affair with the geisha Komako in a hot spring town. For 10 points, name this Nobel prize winning Japanese author of The Master of Go and Snow Country.
One character created by this author is outraged and disheartened when his opponent commits the sealed Move 121.
Yasunari Kawabata