Teach a departing man the name of one flower. Flowers bloom faithfully every year.
別れる男に、花の名を一つは教えておきなさい。花は毎年必ず咲きます。
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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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