Short Fiction

"Izu no Odoriko" ["The Izu Dancer"] 1926

House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories 1969

Palm-of-the-Hand Stories 1988

Other Major Works

Yukiguni [Snow Country] (novel) 1937

Sembazuru [Thousand Cranes] (novel) 1952

Yama no oto [The Sound of the Mountain] (novel) 1954

Go sei-gen kidan [The Master of Go] (novel) 1954

Mizuumi [The Lake] (novel) 1955

Onna de aru koto [To Be a Woman] (novel) 1956-58

Utsukushisa to kanashimi to [Beauty and Sadness] (novel) 1965

Utsukushii nihon no watakushi [Japan the Beautiful and Myself] (Nobel Prize lecture) 1969

Kawabata Yasunari Zenshu. 35 vols, (collected works) 1980-83