Two of the characters in a novel by this author complain about the isolating practice of "canning" during an event, which is interrupted by a three-month stay at St. Luke's Hospital by Honinbo Shusai, the title character; that novel by this author relates the title character's defeat by Otake in 237 moves and his death shortly thereafter.
In one work by this author, three characters discuss the excavation of the tomb of Kazunomiya and the discovery of a glass photograph in the skeleton's hands, which may have had a picture of her dead husband or of her lover. In another work by this author, the narrator takes some photographs using his own hand as a shutter, but he is pleased with how the dead man appears in them, despite their emphasis of his right eyebrow. Keiko avenges her lover, Otoko, on the author of A Girl of Sixteen, Oki Toshio, by causing the latter's son, Taichiro to drown in this author's Beauty and Sadness. Two of the characters in a novel by this author complain about the isolating practice of "canning" during an event, which is interrupted by a three-month stay at St. Luke's Hospital by Honinbo Shusai, the title character; that novel by this author relates the title character's defeat by Otake in 237 moves and his death shortly thereafter. For 10 points, name this author of The Master of Go, as well as Snow Country and A Thousand Cranes. 
In one work by this author, three characters discuss the excavation of the tomb of Kazunomiya and the discovery of a glass photograph in the skeleton's hands, which may have had a picture of her dead husband or of her lover.
Kawabata Yasunari [prompt on "Yasunari"] 