Japanese Authors

Question 1

Tale of Genji

Answer 1

Lady Murasaki

Question 2

Master of Haiku, Zen Buddhism, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Answer 2

Matsuo

Question 3

Recipient of the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature, he was the first Japanese author to win the Nobel, Thousand Cranes, Tale of Genji, The Sound of the Mountain

Answer 3

Kawabata

Question 4

Confessions of a Mask, Sea of Fertility, committed ritual suicide after a public speech failed to galvanize the armed forces into overthrowing the government

Answer 4

Mishima