The narrator of one of this author's stories hears a superstition about a monster hiding in a stomach stealing food and helps his ailing grandfather urinate.
The narrator of one of this author's stories hears a superstition about a monster hiding in a stomach stealing food and helps his ailing grandfather urinate. The story "The Diary of My Sixteenth Year" appears among this author's (*) Palm-of-the-Hand stories, and in one of his novels, Kikuko is lusted after by her father-in-law Shingo. One of this man's novels ends during a fire in a silk warehouse; that novel's protagonist is an expert in Western ballet named Shimamura who travels to the title location and meets the geisha Komako. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of The Sound of the Mountain and Snow Country.
The narrator of one of this author's stories hears a superstition about a monster hiding in a stomach stealing food and helps his ailing grandfather urinate.
Yasunari Kawabata (accept names in either order)