# Yasunari Kawabata

- Quotes: 5
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/yasunari-kawabata

## Books

- [Snow Country](https://www.leafyquotes.com/yasunari-kawabata/snow-country.md) — 3 quotes
- [The Master of Go](https://www.leafyquotes.com/yasunari-kawabata/the-master-of-go.md) — 3 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> The train came out of the long border tunnel — and there was the snow country. The night had turned white.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/yasunari-kawabata/snow-country/the-train-came.md)

> That play of black upon white, white upon black, has the intent and takes the form of creative art. It has in it a flow of the spirit and a harmony of music. Everything is lost when suddenly a false note is struck, or one party in a duet suddenly launches forth on an eccentric flight of his own. A masterpiece of a game can be ruined by insensitivity to the feelings of an adversary.

p. 164 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/yasunari-kawabata/the-master-of-go/that-play-of-black.md)

> Maybe vagueness has been good for me. The word means two different things in Tokyo and Osaka, you know. In Tokyo it means stupidity, but in Osaka they talk about vagueness in a painting and in a game of Go.

p. 76 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/yasunari-kawabata/the-master-of-go/maybe-vagueness-has.md)

> From the way of Go, the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation. The road to advancement in rank, which controlled the life of a player, had become a meticulous point system. One conducted the battle only to win, and there was no margin for remembering the dignity and the fragrance of Go as an art.

p. 52 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/yasunari-kawabata/the-master-of-go/from-the-way.md)

> In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one on the other. The figures and the background were unrelated, and yet the figures, transparent and intangible, and the background, dim in the gathering darkness, melted into a sort of symbolic world not of this world. Particularly when a light out in the mountains shone in the center of the girl's face, Shimamura felt his chest rise at the inexpressible beauty of it.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/yasunari-kawabata/snow-country/in-the-depths.md)