NMLP P-033978 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Sound of the Mountain (Yama no Oto)

Yasunari Kawabata · Alfred A. Knopf (New York) · 1970

The Knopf US edition of 1970 is the first English-language edition and precedes the UK (Peter Owen, 1971). The Japanese original dates to 1954. This translation won the National Book Award for Translation.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-033978 for "The Sound of the Mountain (Yama no Oto)" by Yasunari Kawabata (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-033978, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).