Kawabata

[ kah-wuh-bah-tuh; Japanese kah-wah-bah-tah ]

noun

1. Ya·su·na·ri [yah, -s, oo, -, nah, -, r, ee], 1899–1972, Japanese novelist and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1968.

Kawabata

/ ˌkæwəˈbɑːtə /

noun

1. KawabataYasunari18991972MJapaneseWRITING: novelist Yasunari (ˌjæsʊˈnɑːrɪ). 1899–1972, Japanese novelist, author of Yukiguni ( Snow Country , 1948) and Yama no oto ( The Sound of the Mountain , 1954): Nobel prize for literature 1968

Example Sentences

I have wondered how much further the Chess-playing naturalist might have taken this metaphor if, like Kawabata, he had studied Go.

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