Detailed Instructions: In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
Q: In one work by this author, a woman detaches her right arm and gives it to the narrator to keep for a night. In one of his novels, the patriarch of the Ogata family reconsiders his relationship with his philandering son Shuichi. In another, Kikuji has an affair with Mrs. Ota, a former mistress of his dead father. He also wrote a novel which centers on a match between Otake and Shusai, and one in which Shimamura has an affair with the geisha Komako while visiting the titular region of Japan. For 10 points, name this first Japanese winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, who wrote The Sound of the Mountain, Thousand Cranes, The Master of Go, and Snow Country.
A:
Literature