THE MASTER OF GO
Yasunari Kawabata
Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker
Yasunari Kawabata, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature, was
one of Japan’s most distinguished novelists. Born in Osaka in 1899, he
published his first stories while he was still in high school. He graduated
from Tokyo Imperial University in 1924. His story “The Izu Dancer,” first
published in 1925, appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in 1955. Among his
major novels published in the United States are Snow Country (1956),
Thousand Cranes (1959), The Sound of the Mountain (1970), The Master
of Go (1972), and Beauty and Sadness (1975). Kawabata was found dead,
by his own hand, in 1972.
