Talk:Yasunari Kawabata

message: I think the first name is Yasunari , the second Kawabata (in English at least). Pibwl 19:47, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I'd like to get the dates of the works accurate. One I already fixed (Master of Go), as the date given was that of the English translation. I left the translation date for the moment - do we want to bother with those, or just give the original Japanese publication dates? There is a discrepancy with my sources for Izu Dancer - they give 1925, not the 1927. I have left the latter until we can get a definitive answer. Beauty and Sadness seems to have been published in installments from 1961-65 - can anyone confirm that? Noel (talk) 14:17, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Dates of works

message: These stories were not collected and published in english until 1988, and as such, are of less importance to an english-speaking audience. However, the stories were considered central to Kawabata's ouvre by both himself and most of Japanese criticism. They present a wiki difficulty in that not all of the stories appear in all editions: the term palm-of-the-hand stories reffers to all of Kawabata's short short stories, not literally to any one publication. I beleive they deserve mention along side the novels in the body of the article.
For discussion of the importance of the work see the introduction to Lane Dunlop and J. Martin Holman's very competent 1988 translation from North Point Press.
From ComicbooksR4children 14:02, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Palm-of-the-Hand Stories 

message: Israel isn't really considered Asia, at least not in the modern era.  I won't change it but someone else may want to.--Nomadicworld 14:34, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Israel may plays in European football, etc., but generally, esp. historically and geographically Israel really belongs to Asia, since it's in the Middle East (Southwest Asia). --Avia 02:43, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Forgive me, but I just removed the line. The fact of the mater is that places like the Middle East and Turkey are not included in the definition of "Asia" by a great number of English speakers. Futhermore, I'd also say that the term "Asian", as it was used in the line in question, was not a very good choice of language. In particular, your average American English speaker would most likely interpret "Asian" form the line as referring either, one, people from a country inhabited by an "asian" race (e.g. Japan, China, Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, etc., but certainly not Isreal and the like, and not even India, for instance), or two, people of this racial heritage not necessarily belonging to such a country. Point is, it was a phrasing likely to cause confusion for a significant number of English speakers, and thus I removed it. If someone thinks it needs to be in there, then I suggest significantly revising the line taking into account what I just said here. Reading over the Wikipedia entries for both Asia and Asian would also be recommended.--Kyabetsuyaki 05:32, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Asian? 

message: For example: 
"The book which he himself considered his finest work, The Master of Go (1951) is a severe contrast with his other works."
Where was this information found?
ComicbooksR4children 14:24, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  This page lacks proper citing. 

message: Although his death is categorized as carbon monoxide poisoning, this is not corroborated by the article, which it should. Death by gassing usually means death by natural gas poisoning. If it can be confirmed that his suicide was by carbon monoxide poisoning, the article should be added to :Category:Suicides by carbon monoxide poisoning. __meco (talk) 07:32, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Details about suicide method 

message: The 2nd paragraph in the biography section departs from a chronological story of his life into a four sentence tangent that should probably be moved further down the article. Isnoop (talk) 22:12, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biography Issues 

message: I think that the Nobel Prize Lecture portion is not very helpful. I wouldn't say that it summarizes Kawabata's main points or the essence of the lecture well at all. There must be a better critical analysis of the lecture out there somewhere.
In my opinion, the lecture is more about defining the Japanese spirit with appeals to classic Japanese figures and artists that exemplified an unchanging Japanese cultural/psychological essence.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.111.249.229 (talk) 04:30, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nobel Speech 

message: why is The Dancing Girl of Izu systematically described as a "short story" on Wikipedia?  It's 176 pages long, and while first serialized in a magazine, it was later published as book. The Japanese wiki describes it as a 小説, "novel". Jpatokal (talk) 03:26, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Short story?