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Yasunari Kawabata: 古都 (The Old Capital) This novel was not published in English till twenty-five years after it was first published in Japanese, when it had already been published in many other languages and had been specifically cited by the Nobel Prize Committee as the one that made the deepest impression in the author’s native country and abroad. The Old Capital is one of the three novels cited specifically by the Nobel Committee when they awarded Yasunari Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature in With the ethereal tone and aesthetic styling characteristic of Kawabata's prose, The Old Capital tells the story of Chieko, the adopted daughter of a Kyoto kimono designer, Takichiro, and his wife, bltadwin.ru by: 4. The Old Capital is one of the three novels cited specifically by the Nobel Committee when they awarded Yasunari Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature in With the ethereal tone and aesthetic styling characteristic of Kawabata’s prose, The Old Capital tells the story of Chieko, the adopted daughter of a Kyoto kimono designer, Takichiro, and his wife, bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 1 min.

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