The Izu Dancer, first published in 1925, is the masterpiece of his early period. It has been somewhat abridged here. 1. A SHOWER swept toward me from the foot of the mountain, touching the cedar ...

His first major work is “The Izu Dancer,” a short story written in 1926, not long before Emperor Shōwa ascended the throne. The unnamed narrator is a 20-year-old student from Tokyo.

'I had spent three nights at hot springs near the center of the peninsula,' Yasunari Kawabata wrote in his short novel 'The Izu Dancer,' published in 1925. 'And now, my fourth day out of Tokyo, I ...

THE IZU DANCER, by Yasunari Kawabata, translated by Edward Seidensticker. THE COUNTERFEITER; OBASUTE; THE FULL MOON, by Yasushi Inoue, translated by Leon Picon ...

"The Izu dancer" describes Young solo to Izu peninsula, and close to an entertainer troupe, in particular with the dancer named Kaoru,but to that brief love is just a featuring lyrical and pale ...