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| Author | Yasunari Kawabata |
|---|---|
| Original title | Meijin (名人) |
| Translator | Edward Seidensticker |
| Language | Japanese |
| Genre | Historical novel |
| Publisher | Shincho magazine |
Publication date | 1951 (magazine) 1954 (novel) |
| Publication place | Japan |
Published in English | 1972 (Knopf) |
| Media type | Print (Magazine, Hardback & Paperback) |
| ISBN | 978-0-394-47541-7 (English) |
| OCLC | 832372867 |
The Master of Go (Japanese: 名人, Hepburn: Meijin) is a novel by the Nobel Prize winning Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata.[1] First published in serial form in 1951, Kawabata considered it his finest work.[2] Sharply distinct from the rest of his literary output, The Master of Go is the only one of Kawabata's novels that the author considered to be finished.[3]
- ^ Yasunari Kawabata's biography on the Official Website of the Nobel Prize. From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1968-1980, Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Sture Allén, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1993
- ^ See the first postscript of his letter to Harold Strauss of 3 April 1972, reprinted in 川端康成全集 補巻二 (Kawabata Yasunari zenshū hokan ni), Shinchōsha, Tōkyō 1984, p. 372.
- ^ Gessel, Van C. (1993). Three Modern Novelists: Soseki, Tanizaki and Kawabata. Kodansha Biographies. Japan: Kodansha International. p. 174. ISBN 4-7700-1652-2.