Yasunari Kawabata

When Kikuji is invited to attend a tea ceremony, he is unaware that Chikako has arranged for him to view a prospective bride.

Thousand Cranes

Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father. He is shocked to find there the mistress�s rival and successor, Mrs. Ota, and that the ceremony has been awkwardly arranged for him to meet his potential future bride. But he is most shocked to be drawn into a relationship with Mrs. Ota � a relationship that will bring only suffering and destruction to all of them. Thousand Cranes reflects the tea ceremony�s poetic precision with understated, lyrical style and beautiful prose.

Destinies and memories mingle as each touch, each glance, infuses the moment with a subtle longing for the wafts of a lingering fragrance. Objects imbued with spirit, each crack and blemish tempting a sensual nostalgia, suggestive of a delicate sentimental guilt.

Anas A

Jade Flynn

Kawabata displays subtlety, masterfully. Melancholic.

Thousand Cranes

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