thousand cranes commentary
... ” In Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousand Cranes, the author constantly portrays the feeling of loneliness and pre-occupation with death. ... Throughout Yasunari Kawabata’s novel Thousand Cranes, a sense of the loss of motherhood is present. ... In his novel Thousand Cranes, the central character, Kikuji, loses his mother and has actions similar to those of any other child whose mother has just passed, especially similar to those of Kawabata. ... In the chapter titled, “Figured Shino” of Thousand Cranes, Kikuji is notified of Mrs.