As per our current Database, Yasunari Kawabata has been died on Apr 16, 1972 (age 72).
When Yasunari Kawabata die, Yasunari Kawabata was 72 years old.
| Popular As | Yasunari Kawabata |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Age | 72 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Gemini |
| Born | June 11, 1899 (Japan) |
| Birthday | June 11 |
| Town/City | Japan |
| Nationality | Japan |
Yasunari Kawabata’s zodiac sign is Gemini. According to astrologers, Gemini is expressive and quick-witted, it represents two different personalities in one and you will never be sure which one you will face. They are sociable, communicative and ready for fun, with a tendency to suddenly get serious, thoughtful and restless. They are fascinated with the world itself, extremely curious, with a constant feeling that there is not enough time to experience everything they want to see.
Yasunari Kawabata was born in the Year of the Pig. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Pig are extremely nice, good-mannered and tasteful. They’re perfectionists who enjoy finer things but are not perceived as snobs. They enjoy helping others and are good companions until someone close crosses them, then look out! They’re intelligent, always seeking more knowledge, and exclusive. Compatible with Rabbit or Goat.
Remembered for his novels The Old Capital, Thousand Cranes, and Snow Country, this acclaimed Writer was the first Japanese citizen to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. A Journalist as well as a fiction Writer, he was employed by the Tokyo-based Mainichi Shimbun newspaper.
While studying at Tokyo University, he founded a literary journal called Shin-Shichō and published his debut short story, "Shokonsai Ikkei."
The music Composer Purusha incorporated passages from Kawabata's Palm-of-the-Hand Stories into an electronic track titled "Water Flea."
Sadly, his parents had both died by the time he was four, and his grandmother and grandfather died when he was seven and fifteen, respectively. He later married a woman named Hideko.
One factor in Kawabata's 1972 apparent suicide may have been the 1970 suicide of his close friend and fellow author, Yukio Mishima.
