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Thousand Cranes (千羽鶴, Senbazuru) is a novel by Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata which first appeared in serialised form between 1949 and 1951 and was published as a book in 1952.
The one thousand origami cranes were globally popularized through the story of Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese girl who was two years old when she was exposed to radiation from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II.
Senbazuru - or one thousand cranes - is the Japanese tradition of folding 1,000 origami cranes in order to have a wish granted. That idea is not addressed directly in this story. Rather, it's the Japanese tea ceremony (chanoyu), and its place in forming the Japanese mind.
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About Thousand Cranes. A luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead—from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner and author of Snow Country. “A stunning economy, delicacy of feeling, and a painter’s sensitivity to the visible world.” —The Atlantic
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Thousand Cranes, novel by Kawabata Yasunari, published serially in several newspapers beginning in 1949 and published as Sembazuru with the novel Yama no Oto (The Sound of the Mountain) in 1952. One of Kawabata’s finest works, Thousand Cranes was written in part as a sequel to Yukiguni (1948; Snow.
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Feb 26, 2013 · Thousand Cranes. Yasunari Kawabata. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Feb 26, 2013 - Fiction - 160 pages. A luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the...
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A luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead—from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner and author of Snow Country. "A stunning economy, delicacy of feeling, and a painter’s sensitivity to the visible world.” —The Atlantic.
