Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives...
Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father. He is shocked to find there the mistress�s rival and successor, Mrs. Ota, and that the ceremony has been awkwardly arranged for him to meet his potential futu...
Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, the novelist Yasunari Kawabata felt the essence of his art was to be found not in his longer works but in a series of short storiesâwhich he called "Palm-of-the-Hand Stories"â...
From the Nobel Prize-winning author and acclaimed writer of Thousand Cranes comes the luminous chronicle of a match of the Japanese game Go played between a master and a younger, more modern challenger that serves as a suspenseful elegy for an entire soci...