NMLP P-033973 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-04

Snow Country (Yukiguni)

Yasunari Kawabata · Sōgensha (Tokyo) · 1937

Because Kawabata revised repeatedly, 'first edition' is complicated: the 1937 first book and the 1948 'complete' version are different textual states. The Seidensticker English translation (Knopf 1956) is not the world-first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-033973 for "Snow Country (Yukiguni)" by Yasunari Kawabata (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-033973, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).