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The protagonist of this novel is scarred by the image of a woman cutting hairs off of an ugly birthmark on her breast, which he saw at age eight. That protagonist feels that he has "known a woman for the first time" when he sleeps with a woman twenty years his senior, but later rejects her, causing her to kill herself with an overdose of sleeping pills. The protagonist of this novel falls in love with (*) Fumiko after she smashes the Shino bowl that had belonged to her mother, Mrs. Ota, who used to be the mistress of the protagonist's father. Another of his father's mistresses, Kurimoto, tries to entrap Kikuji Mitani in a marriage to Yukiko by inviting them to a tea ceremony. For 10 points, name this Yasunari Kawabata novel titled after the decorations on Yukiko's dress, which are said to cure disease.
The protagonist of this novel is scarred by the image of a woman cutting hairs off of an ugly birthmark on her breast, which he saw at age eight.
{Thousand Cranes} [or {Sembazuru}]