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Utsukushisa To Kanashimi first published in Japan by Chuo koronsha, Tokyo, 1961 Copyright © Yasunari Kawabata, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965

This translation first published in Great Britain by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd 1975 Published in Penguin Books 1979 Translation copyright © Alfred A. Knopg, Inc., 1975 All rights reserved

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