The Dancing Girl of Izu

"The Dancing Girl of Izu"
Short story by Yasunari Kawabata
Original titleIzu no odoriko
TranslatorE. Seidensticker (1955)
J. Martin Holman (1997)
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Publication
Published inBungei Jidai
Publication typeMagazine
Media typePrint
Publication date1926
Published in English1955 (abridged)

The Dancing Girl of Izu or The Izu Dancer (伊豆の踊子, Izu no odoriko) is a short story[1][2][3] (or, accounting for its length, a novella)[4][5][6] by Japanese writer and Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata first published in 1926.[7]

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