川端 康成 Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成).

He was born 1899 and died in 1972. A writer of world renown, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. -one of the few Nobel prizes that has not been trivialized and still, in my opinion, has great honor attached to it.

He is respected in his own country as well as abroad.

His short story, 'The Dancing Girl of Izu' (伊豆の踊子 izu no odoriko)) , 1926, gained him his first critical acclaim.

An English translation is available in a book by that title published by Counterpoint Press, ISBN 1887178945.



Portrait; colored pencil, Kanji; done in ink. On card stock, 12 by 12 inches.