"Beautiful Japan - My Introduction" - Utsukushii Nihon no Watashi

Japanese: 《美しい日本の私――その序説》 - うつくしいにほんのわたくし
"Beautiful Japan - My Introduction" - Utsukushii Nihon no Watashi

...In 1968, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese to do so, for Snow Country and his postwar works Thousand Cranes and The Ancient Capital (1961-62). In his commemorative speech, My Beautiful Japan: An Introduction, he expounded on the essence of Japanese beauty and emptiness that is different from Western nihilism. He committed suicide in his workroom in April 1972.

*Some of the terminology used in "My Beautiful Japan - An Introduction" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…この《雪国》と戦後の《千羽鶴》および《古都》(1961‐62)の評価により1968年に日本人最初のノーベル文学賞を与えられた。受賞記念講演《美しい日本の私――その序説》は日本美の精髄と西欧的ニヒリズムと違う虚無を説いた。72年4月に仕事部屋で自殺した。…

※「《美しい日本の私――その序説》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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