Thousand Cranes

Thousand Cranes

infobox book
name = Thousand Cranes
title_orig = 千羽鶴
"senbazuru"
author = Yasunari Kawabata
country = Japan
language = Japanese
genre = Novel
publisher =
pub_date = 1958
english pub_date =
media type = Print (paperback)
preceded_by = The Master of Go
followed_by = The Sound of the Mountain

nihongo|"Thousand Cranes"|千羽鶴|senbazuru is a novel by Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. This was the first time any Japanese author won this prize.

Plot

Characters

*Kikuji Mitani - A bachelor who has been orphaned and is the main character of the novel.
*Chikako Kurimoto - Formerly a mistress of Kikuji's father who continues to meddle in the affairs of Kikuji.
*Yukiko Inamura - A girl who is being proposed as a bride to Kikuji by Kurimoto.
*Mrs. Ota - She is a tea enthusiast. She was also a mistress for Kikuji's father during his last years and now is attracted to Kikuji as a means to remember his father.
*Fumiko Ota - Mrs. Ota's daughter.

Themes

Tea Ceremony
*Grace
*PrecisionRed & White
*Influence

Awards

This novel is one of three novels cited by the Nobel Committee in awarding Yasunari Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature. The other two books are "Snow Country" and "The Old Capital".


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