The protagonist of one of this author's works is told by her adoptive parents that as an infant she was stolen from beneath the cherry blossoms, and in another work of this author, after Kikuko has an abortion, her husband Shuichi's mistress is encouraged to get one by Shingo. In addition to writing about Chieko in The Old Capital, this author described Yukio's death of tuberculosis at a hot-spring resort where the geisha Komako becomes the lover of Shimamura. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of The Sound of the Mountain and Snow Country.
The protagonist of one of this author's works is told by her adoptive parents that as an infant she was stolen from beneath the cherry blossoms, and in another work of this author, after Kikuko has an abortion, her husband Shuichi's mistress is encouraged to get one by Shingo. In addition to writing about Chieko in The Old Capital, this author described Yukio's death of tuberculosis at a hot-spring resort where the geisha Komako becomes the lover of Shimamura. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of The Sound of the Mountain and Snow Country.
The protagonist of one of this author's works is told by her adoptive parents that as an infant she was stolen from beneath the cherry blossoms, and in another work of this author, after Kikuko has an abortion, her husband Shuichi's mistress is encouraged to get one by Shingo.
Yasunari {Kawabata}