Kawabata

American  

[kah-wuh-bah-tuh, kah-wah-bah-tah] / ˌkɑ wəˈbɑ tə, ˈkɑ wɑˈbɑ tɑ /

noun

1. Yasunari 1899–1972, Japanese novelist and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1968.

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Kawabata British  

/ ˌkæwəˈbɑːtə /

noun

1. 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

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Example Sentences

Working with Japanese American woodworker Toshi Kawabata of Barrban Woodworks, Lizabeth Altounian realized her dream of living in a Kyoto-style dwelling, on a small scale.

From Los Angeles Times

Yasunari Kawabata leaves much unsaid and unexplained but with swift sure lines conveys Komako’s love, anger and hopelessness along with the mountains’ beauty and danger.

From The Wall Street Journal

Kawabata gives us children who delight in “breaking off chunks of ice from the drains and throwing them down in the middle of the road.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Oe riffs on the speech given by the first Nobel laureate in literature from Japan, Yasunari Kawabata in 1968, to offer his own meditation on what it means to be a Japanese writer — “born and brought up in a peripheral, marginal, off-center region of the peripheral, marginal, off-center country.”

From Washington Post

Yoshoku is a genre of Japanese cuisine established more than a century ago, and some made its way to South Korea in the 1960s as ethnic Koreans travelled between the two countries, said Motoo Kawabata, a professor at Kwansei Gakuin University who specialises in Japanese restaurants' global strategy.

From Reuters