The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.
国境の長いトンネルを抜けると雪国であった。
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Yasunari Kawabata
Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972) was the first Japanese author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1968), honored for his narrative mastery expressing 'the essence of the Japanese mind.' Works such as 'Snow Country,' 'The Old Capital,' and 'Thousand Cranes' capture transient beauty with a prose style of extraordinary delicacy and precision.
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