2. “Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me
to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in
words…”
-Yasunari Kawabata
3. His life
1899: born in Osaka prefecture
1900: lost his parents - tuberculosis
1910: lost a his sister
1914: lost his grandparents
1926: published “Izu no Odoriko”
1968: won Nobel Prize
1972: died as suicide by gassing himself