A Study Guide for Yasnuri Kawabata's "The Jay"
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The Jay
Yasunari Kawabata
1949
Introduction
Yasunari Kawabata was a renowned Japanese author of short stories and novels, but his favorite form of storytelling was one of his own invention. He called this form of writing palm-of-the-hand
storytelling. Like poetry, his palm-of-the-hand stories are brief and dense in imagery. Stylistically, they resemble a prose version of Japanese haiku, an ancient form of poetry revered for its simplicity and beauty. Kawabata's very short fiction relies on succinct, subtle writing that often tells a story much larger than appears on the page. The Jay,
originally published in 1949, is an excellent example of this type of story, describing the teenage girl Yoshiko's life at home as she worries about a jay in her garden who has lost her chick. As the jay sings, frantically searching for her chick, Yoshiko prepares to meet the mother of her fiancé—a marriage her father has arranged. The Jay
appears in Kawabata's Palm-of-the Hand Stories (1988), translated by Lane Dunlop and J. Martin Holman.
Author Biography
Kawabata was born in Osaka, Japan, on June 14, 1899, to a prominent Buddhist family. He experienced terrible loss as a child, as his father, mother, grandmother, only sister (named Yoshiko), and, finally, his beloved blind grandfather died—leaving him orphaned before he turned fifteen. He attended First High School in Tokyo, living in the dormitories and founding a literary club. His early compositions drew the admiration of his teachers and classmates. In 1920, he enrolled at Tokyo Imperial University, where he began to publish in literary magazines, the cornerstone of the Japanese literary scene. In 1924, he graduated with a degree in Japanese literature, and in 1925, he met his future wife, Matsubayashi Hideko—just as his writing career took off. The publication of his short story The Izu Dancer
in 1926 was his first major success. This story of a quiet schoolboy who joins a group of traveling performers is much beloved in Japan and has been adapted into film regularly since its publication.
Thoroughly shaped by the tragic deaths in his family, Kawabata was nicknamed Master of Funerals
for his