日本のよいものを世界へ

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2022.04.02 〜 2022.06.11

Handwritten diaries and letters convey new aspects of Kawabata Yasunari

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Kawabata Yasunari, one of the most famous writers of modern and contemporary Japanese literature active from the Taisho to Showa eras, and known for being the first Japanese to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968.
The Museum of Modern Japanese Literature, located in Komaba Park in Meguro-ku, Tokyo, is currently holding an exhibition that shows a new side of Kawabata Yasunari through his diary, notebooks for creating works, and numerous letters. In particular, the exhibition focuses on the way Kawabata pursued connections with others and continued to string words together in the midst of his experience of losing his immediate family. The exhibition is divided into seven chapters, including Chapter 1 on the theme of “Experiences as a Young Man: Upbringing and Original Creative Experience,” Chapter 2 on the theme of “Novel Laboratory: Palm Stories and the ‘Literary Age,'” and Chapter 3 on the theme of “An Eye on Up-and-Coming Writers.

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