Quotations from Kawabata Yasunari’s classic works

Introduction: Kawabata Yasunari (かわばた やすなり, 1899-1972), a Japanese New Sensationist writer and a famous novelist. The following are quotations from Kawabata Yasunari's classic works. You are welcome to read and learn from them.

1. The snow in the mirror becomes more and more dazzling, like a burning flame. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

2. The moon is as bright as a knife placed on crystal ice. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

3. The singing is so clear that it is almost sad, and it seems to evoke an echo immediately. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

4. The almost sad and beautiful voice of the leaves, like the echo of a certain snow mountain, still lingers in Shimamura's ears. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

5. This kind of loneliness dispels sadness and contains a kind of bold will. ? Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

6. Shimamura didn't feel sad when he saw this kind of sadness, just like seeing a phantom in a dream. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

7. The vast Milky Way hangs in front of you, as if it wants to embrace the vast night earth with its naked body. It is really beautiful and amazing. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

8. Kikuji is like a person who has been suppressed by a spell and fallen into the abyss of paralysis. When he reaches the limit, he feels that he is freed from the shackles and paralysis of that spell. It is like a person who has been poisoned and finally takes an extreme amount of poison, but it becomes the antidote and performs miracles. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Thousand Cranes"

9. The river at the foot of the mountain seems to flow from the top of the cedar tree. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

10. The mountains on the opposite side and the roofs of the foothills emerged in the misty rain. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

11. The cedar forest covered with a thin layer of snow stands out one by one on the snow, stretching sharply into the sky. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

12. Chieko lowered her head. Mizuki Shinichi's face appeared in front of his eyes. That was Shinichi when he was young. He painted his eyebrows, put on lipstick, put on makeup, wore dynasty-style clothes, and sat on top of the Gion Festival float. Needless to say, Chieko was also young at that time. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Ancient Capital"

13. The distant mountains are mist-covered with a layer of soft milky white. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

14. Shimamura seemed to be sitting on something unrealistic, losing the concept of time and distance, falling into a blur, letting it carry him in vain The body gallops. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

15. This laughter is so clear that it is almost sad. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

16. There are many rocks in the stream, and the gurgling sound of running water gives people a sweet and mellow feeling. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

17. The moment her eyes overlapped with the light, they were like coquettish and beautiful luminous insects flying in the afterglow of the setting sun. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

18. The tranquility of the snowy night is refreshing. ? Kawabata Yasunari "Snow Country"

19. Like a precious sword? Shinichi occasionally heard people say this about his face, but this was the first time he heard it from Chieko. Every time I say this to someone, it is when something is about to burn in my heart, "The sword cannot cut people, not to mention that this is under a flower." ? Shinichi smiled. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Ancient Capital"

20. ?What kind of tree is that red tree? It's lacquer tree. ?Miaozi raised his eyes and answered. At this moment, the hair that had been gathered up with trembling hands, for some reason, suddenly spread out and spread all the way to the back. ? Oops!? Miao Zi blushed, put her hair back and rolled it up, and held the hairpins in her mouth, but they were not enough, and some of the hairpins seemed to have fallen to the ground. Xiu Nan looked at her posture and movements and thought they were beautiful. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Ancient Capital"

　21. Due to different weather conditions, if there were no theater walls, no audience, and no urban dust, the sound of the piano would sound unimpeded through the clear morning sky in winter. Through the snow-covered mountains in the distance. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

22. This is a beautiful voice that is so clear that it is almost sad, like an echo coming from somewhere. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

23. The silvery white flowers are like the autumn sun pouring on the mountains. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

24. The mirror reflects the mountains covered with red leaves. The autumn sun in the mirror is bright and dazzling. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

25. Flowers color the air, and even the body seems to be dyed with color. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Ancient Capital"

26. Even your fingertips have beautiful colors? Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

27. I woke up at four in the morning and found that Begonia was still awake. . If a flower is beautiful, then sometimes I can't help but think: "Go on!" Kawabata Yasunari's "Flowers Never Sleep"

28. Even if I fall into abject poverty with a pen, my weak and sensitive The soul can no longer be separated from literature. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "A Single Shadow"

29. Death refuses all understanding.

?Kawabata Yasunari's "Thousand Cranes"

30. Elegance means discovering the beauty of existence and feeling the beauty that has been discovered. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "The Existence and Discovery of Beauty"

31. We are all sons of God, and every birth is like being abandoned by God... Because we are the sons of God, we are abandoned before, and salvation is in the future. back. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Ancient Capital"

32. Passing through the long tunnel at the county boundary is the Snow Country, with a vast expanse of white under the night sky. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

33. Survival itself is a kind of futility. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

34. Guilt may not disappear, but sorrow will pass away? Kawabata Yasunari's "Thousand Cranes"

35. All art is nothing more than the direction of people The path to maturity. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "The Voice of Innocence"

36. Autumn also comes from the color of the soles of the feet and the color of the nails. Before summer comes, let me go barefoot. Hide your bare feet before autumn arrives. Keep your nails trimmed in the summer. Wouldn't it be warmer to leave your nails a little dirty in early autumn? In autumn, I bend my arms as a pillow, and my elbows are tanned. If you don't have a strong appetite in autumn, you will feel a little empty. People whose earwax is too thick do not understand autumn. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Four Scenes of Early Autumn"

37. Maybe all mortals are abandoned children, because birth itself seems to be God abandoning you to this world. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Ancient Capital"

38. There is a strong vitality in poverty. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

39. The empty echo of Komako hitting the wall sounded to Shimamura like snowflakes falling in his heart. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

40. Shimamura somehow seemed to feel deep in his heart: the woman who remembers by the touch of her fingers, and the woman whose eyes sparkle with lights, there will be a difference between them. What's the connection, what might be going on. This is probably because I haven't woken up from the mirror of the twilight scene yet. He murmured to himself for no reason: Are the passage of those dusk scenes a symbol of the passage of time? Yasunari Kawabata, "Snow Country"

41. Treat each other as friends, and do not ask for pleasure from you. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

42. Shimamura felt bored. Staring blankly at the fingers of his left hand that were constantly moving. Because only this finger could make him clearly feel the woman he was about to meet. The strange thing is that the more eager you are to recall her clearly, the blurr your impression becomes. In this confusing memory, only the few touches left by this finger brought him to the woman in the distance. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

43. Suicide is not terrible. What is more terrible than suicide is disappointment and world-weariness? Kawabata Yasunari's "Beauty and Sorrow"

44. I am twenty As a young man, I have repeatedly and seriously reflected on my strange temper due to my orphan nature. It was because I couldn't stand the suffocating melancholy that I embarked on my journey to Izu. ?Kawabata Yasunari "The Dancing Girl of Izu"

45. Passing through the long tunnel at the county boundary is the Snow Country. There was a vast expanse of white under the night sky. The train stopped in front of the signal station. A girl stood up from the seat opposite and opened the glass window in front of Shimamura's seat. A blast of cold air swept in. The girl leaned out of the window and shouted as if calling to the distance: Mr. Stationmaster, Mr. Stationmaster! Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

46. But he had no idea about this wonderful fate. No matter how strange it feels, I feel strange that I don't feel strange. ? Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

47. It seems that I can only leave reality with my feet and fly in the sky! There is nothing better than committing suicide without leaving a suicide note. Silent death is infinite life. Death is equivalent to rejecting all understanding that beauty is constantly disappearing in the past days. Once it is expressed in this world, it will never be extinguished? Kawabata Yasunari's "Immortal Beauty"

48. This is a An illusion. Because the dusk that keeps passing behind the girl's face seems to be flowing in front of her face. If you look carefully, it's confusing. The cabin isn't too bright either. The reflection on the windowpane is not as clear as a real mirror. The reflection is gone. This fascinated Shimamura. He gradually forgot about the existence of the mirror and only felt that the girl seemed to be floating in the passing dusk. At this moment, lights flashed on the girl's face. The clarity of the image in the mirror did not diminish the light outside the window. The light did not erase the image. The light flashed across her face, but it did not illuminate her face. This was a beam of cold light cast from a distance, vaguely illuminating the area around her eyes. The moment her eyes overlapped with the lights, they were like a coquettish and beautiful figure dancing in the afterglow of the setting sun. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

49. ?Even the timbre is different on days like this!? Komako looked up at the clear sky after the snow and only said this. Indeed, that was due to the difference in weather. If there were no theater walls, no audience, and no urban dust, the sound of the piano would pass through the clear morning sky in winter and ring unimpeded through the snow-covered mountains in the distance. Although she was not aware of it, she always used the canyons of nature as her audience to practice playing in solitude.

Over time, her strumming naturally gained strength. This kind of loneliness dispels sadness and contains a kind of bold will. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

50. Over the distant mountain tops, there is still a faint afterglow of the sunset. The outline of the scenery seen through the car window receded into the distance, but did not disappear, but it was eclipsed. Although the train continued to run forward, in his opinion, the ordinary posture of the mountains and fields became more and more ordinary. Since nothing really attracted his attention, there seemed to be a huge torrent of emotion hidden within him. This was naturally due to the girl's face appearing in the mirror. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

51. This country path is covered with fallen leaves, has steep walls, is slippery, and is rugged and difficult to navigate. I was out of breath, so I gave up. I used my time to support my knees and quickened my pace. Seeing a group of people falling behind me, I could only hear voices coming from the forest. The dancer lifted the hem of her dress with her belly and hurriedly followed me. She walked behind me, keeping less than two meters apart. She doesn't want to shorten the distance, nor does she want to widen it. I turned back to talk to her. She smiled brightly, as if surprised, and stood firm to answer me. When the dancer spoke, I waited for her to catch up, but she still stopped moving forward. She didn't take a step until I started. The path became more winding and steeper. I sped up my pace, but the dancer kept a distance of about two meters behind me and concentrated on climbing. There are many mountains and mountains, but there is no sound. The rest were so far behind us that they could not even hear their voices. ?Kawabata Yasunari "The Dancing Girl of Izu"

52. At dusk, it rained heavily. The towering mountains were dyed with a layer of white flowers. The distance between the near and far levels can no longer be distinguished. The river in front of me looked turbid and turned into yellow soup. The sound of running water became louder. With such heavy rain, the dancers may not come to perform. I thought so in my heart, but I was still restless and went to the bathhouse to take a bath again and again. ?Kawabata Yasunari, "The Dancing Girl of Izu"

53. Shimamura glanced around this peculiar house. There is only a low window on the south side, but the fine-grid paper door is newly-pasted, and there is plenty of light. The walls are also carefully pasted with raw edge paper, making people feel as if they are getting into an old cardboard box. However, the roof above the head was completely exposed and connected to the windows. The house looked very short and dark, shrouded in a deserted atmosphere. When I think about what is on the other side of the wall, I feel like the house is hanging in mid-air, and I always feel uneasy. Although the walls and mats are old, they are very clean. He thought: Ju Zi is probably like a silkworm chrysalis, letting his transparent body live here. ? Kawabata Yasunari "Snow Country"

54. I am in a beautiful and empty state of mind. No matter how kind people treat me, I can bear it very naturally. I think it is very appropriate to take the old woman to Ueno Station early tomorrow morning and buy her a ticket to Mito. I felt it all coming together. My mind turned into a pool of clear water, dripping out, leaving nothing behind, only sweet pleasure. ?Kawabata Yasunari "The Dancing Girl of Izu"

55. The kerosene lamp in the cabin went out. The smell of raw fish and tide on the boat became stronger. In the darkness, the boy's body temperature warmed me. I let the tears well up. My mind seemed to turn into a pool of clear water, overflowing drop by drop. Then nothing was left, and I suddenly felt relieved. ? Kawabata Yasunari, "The Dancing Girl of Izu"

56. However, it seems that her longing for urban things has now been hidden in simple despair, turning into a naive dream. He felt strongly that her emotion was rather a kind of pure futility than the arrogant dissatisfaction of a city loser. She herself did not appear lonely, but in Shimamura's eyes, she became unimaginably sad. If you indulge in this kind of thoughts blindly, even Shimamura himself may fall into a vague sentimentality, thinking that survival itself is a futile effort. However, the cold air in the mountains made the blush on the face of the woman in front of him become even brighter. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

57. Beauty lies in discovery, encounter, and opportunity. At four o'clock in the morning, I saw the begonia flowers awake. Life is not the opposite of death, death is latent in life. Even if you are in hell with ghosts, you can feel at ease; you can leave at any time. This is the freedom that I, a lonely guest in the world, have in my heart. The empty echo of Komako hitting the wall sounded like snowflakes falling in his heart. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

58. Minami-Izu has the air of Indian summer, spotless, crystal clear, and really beautiful. The rising river below the bath receives the warm sunshine. The restlessness last night also felt like a dream. ?Kawabata Yasunari's "The Dancing Girl of Izu"

59. The dusk scene moves behind the mirror. In other words, the virtual image reflected on the mirror and the real object behind the mirror are shaking, like superimposed images in a movie. There is no connection between the characters and the background. Moreover, the characters are a kind of transparent illusion, and the scenery is a hazy undercurrent in the night mist. The two melt together to depict a symbolic world that transcends the human world. Especially when the lights in the mountains reflected the girl's face, the indescribable beauty made Shimamura's heart almost tremble.

?Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country"

60. This is a cold night scene, as if you can hear the sound of ice cracking deep in the entire frozen earth's crust. There is no moon. Looking up, there are so many stars in the sky that it’s unbelievable. The stars were shining brightly, as if they were falling slowly at an illusory speed. The stars moved closer to the eyes, pushing the night sky further and further away, and the night became darker and darker. The mountains at the county boundary have become unclear and appear darker, hanging heavily on the edge of the starry sky. This is a cold, quiet and harmonious atmosphere. When the woman noticed Shimamura approaching, she leaned her breast against the window railing. This gesture is not cowardly, on the contrary, it looks extremely strong against the backdrop of this night.

?Kawabata Yasunari "Snow Country"