Besides The Lake, he wrote of a dying patriarch named Shingo who hears a windy noise in his sleep, and about Mrs. Ota's lover, the orphan [*] Kikuji Mitani, in The Sound of the Mountain and The Thousand Cranes.
In one of this author's novels, a woman throws a purse containing several years' worth of money, earned as an older man's lover, at Gimpei. Besides The Lake, he wrote of a dying patriarch named Shingo who hears a windy noise in his sleep, and about Mrs. Ota's lover, the orphan [*] Kikuji Mitani, in The Sound of the Mountain and The Thousand Cranes. In another work, he wrote of the affair between Shimamura and the hot spring geisha Komako. For 10 points, name this first Japanese Nobel laureate, the author of Snow Country.
In one of this author's novels, a woman throws a purse containing several years' worth of money, earned as an older man's lover, at Gimpei.
Yasunari {Kawabata} [accept Kawabata {Yasunari}]