In another of his novels, Shimamura travels to the title location to visit Komako at the hot springs.
At the end of a novel by this author, the protagonist feels "the milky way flow down inside him with a roar." That occurs after he watches a woman he had earlier seen on a train get saved from a burning warehouse. Images of a 19 by 19 board are interspersed throughout a novel by him about a match between (*) old and young players of a certain game. In another novel by this author, a mistress of Kikuji's father tries to get him to marry Yukiko. In another of his novels, Shimamura travels to the title location to visit Komako at the hot springs. For 10 points, name this author of Thousand Cranes, The Master of Go, and Snow Country.
At the end of a novel by this author, the protagonist feels "the milky way flow down inside him with a roar."
Yasunari Kawabata