Daily Dose

From The Master of Go, by Yasunari Kawabata, translated by Edward G. Seidensticker

EVEN NOW

"Even now he was not asking my advice. He was informing me of his decision."

From Chapter 34

Breakfast at the Bookstore with Brad and Nick #167

Breakfast at the Bookstore with Brad and Nick #125

Breakfast at the Bookstore with Brad and Nick #123

Daily Dose

From The Lake, by Yasunari Kawabata, translated by Reiko Tsukimura

SAD

"He looked sad, lost in his own world.  Miyako felt as if the darkness in him had escaped and passed on into her."

From page 66

Daily Dose

From Snow Country, by Yasunari Kawabata, translated by Edward G. Seidensticker

TALK

"Her talk of novels seemed to have little to do with 'literature' in the everyday sense of the word."

From Part One

Daily Dose

From The Master of Go, by Yasunari Kawabata, translated by Edward G. Seidensticker

ONE

"One shoal had been traversed, another lay ahead."

From Chapter 34

Daily Dose

From Thousand Cranes, by Yasunari Kawabata, translated by Edward G. Seidensticker

SHADOW

"The shadow of young leaves fell on the paper-paneled door."

From Thousand Cranes

A Caricature

Daily Dose

From First Snow on Fuji, by Yasunari Kawabata, translated by Michael Emmerich

NUMBER

"The number of people who had left this world while I considered visiting them, but somehow never did, was by no means small."

From Silence

Daily Dose

From Snow Country, by Yasunari Kawabata, translated by Edward G. Seidensticker

BUT THIS

"But this love would leave behind it nothing so definite as a piece of Chijimi."

From page 126, this edition

Nobel Clerihew

YASUNARI KAWABATA

Yasunari Kawabata
Knew quite well just how he got a
Nobel Prize in '68:
Heroine dies, cursing "Fate."