FTP, name this author of Snow Country who also wrote about the Japanese tea ceremony in Thousand Cranes.
This author wrote about a screenwriter who imagines a mental hospital where everyone wears laughing masks in "The Man who Did Not Smile," and in another work he portrayed an aging businessman who worries about his son's infidelities after his daughter-in-law gets an abortion. In addition to Palm- of-the-Hand Stories and The Sound of the Mountain, the protagonist of another novel is an expert on Western ballet, and that man, Shimamura, has an affair with the geisha Komako in a resort town. FTP, name this author of Snow Country who also wrote about the Japanese tea ceremony in Thousand Cranes.
This author wrote about a screenwriter who imagines a mental hospital where everyone wears laughing masks in "The Man who Did Not Smile," and in another work he portrayed an aging businessman who worries about his son's infidelities after his daughter-in-law gets an abortion.
Yasunari {Kawabata}