Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father, only to find that the mistress' rival and successor is also present. He falls for her, with devastating consequences. By 1949 Yasunari Kawabata, the first Japanese author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, felt that the tradition of the tea ceremony had been degraded. In this delicate novella he uses the ceremony as a powerful vehicle for loneliness, yearning and loss of history.
Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata, a Japanese novelist and Nobel laureate, is best known for his novel "Snow Country." His sparse and lyrical prose style captures the beauty and melancholy of the human experience. Kawabata's exploration of themes such as love, loss, and memory continues to influence modern literature.
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