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

Inami says he was inspired by traditional Japanese puppetry and a quasi-horror short story by novelist Yasunari Kawabata about a man who borrows a young woman's arm and proceeds to spend the night with it.

From Reuters

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

Kawabata said the omurice in South Korea typically has a thinner and firmer layer of eggs, while the image of a perfectly crafted one in Japan has a fluffy, runny, almond-shaped covering of eggs that blanket the ketchup-fried rice.

From Reuters

"Yoon may have been impressed with the softness of Japanese-style omurice," Kawabata said.

From Reuters

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