NMLP P-033972 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Snow Country (Yukiguni)

Yasunari Kawabata · Sōgensha (Tokyo) · 1937

The Japanese Sōgensha 1937 book is the true first in book form; Kawabata continued revising, with the definitive 'complete' text appearing from Sōgensha in 1948. The first English (Knopf, 1956, translated by Edward Seidensticker) is the English-language first thus and the version most often collected in the West.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-033972 for "Snow Country (Yukiguni)" by Yasunari Kawabata (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-033972, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).