This man wrote the Palm-of-the-Hand Stories and "The Dancing Girl of Izu."
In a story by this author, the narrator habitually throws salt on himself and is nicknamed "Mr. Mortician" by his family after attending a series of funerals one summer. He wrote a story in which an array of different-colored lanterns around a playground attract a creature that a schoolboy offers to his classmate. This author of "Master of Funerals" and "The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket" wrote a story whose protagonist has a laughing fit when he discovers a girl he'd seen carrying a large drum is actually a young teenager. This man wrote the Palm-of-the-Hand Stories and "The Dancing Girl of Izu." For 10 points, name this Japanese author who created the ballet expert Shimamura in his short novel Snow Country.
In a story by this author, the narrator habitually throws salt on himself and is nicknamed "Mr. Mortician" by his family after attending a series of funerals one summer.
Yasunari Kawabata &lt;Mehr&gt;