Yasunari Kawabata's "snow Country" Buddhist Thought, And Japan

Yasunari Kawabata was famous modern writer in japan who won the literature Nobel Preze in 1968. Yasunari Kawabata was pursuing"beauty"in his whole life,was also seriously affected by Zen Buddhism. He believed in Zen Buddhism not only subjective factors but also objective factors. Everyone knows that Japan is a country which sincerely believe in Zen Buddhism. Japanese are also deeply affected by Zen Buddhism. Yasunari Kawabata was also affected by this thought in his growing process, it was the objective factor that he belive in Zen Buddhism. He had a rough life. He experienced relative left when he was 2 yeas old. Yasunari was orphaned when he was fifteen, after which his grandfather died. In such a helpless situation, Buddhism deeply impressed into the thinking of many inside Yasunari Kawabata. it was the subjective factor that he belive in Zen Buddhism.In the works of Yasunari Kawabata, especially in his Snow Country, we can find the great influence of Buddhism and Zen. His novel, Snow Country, not only manifests the beauty of national tradition of Japan, but also implies profound thought and meanings of Buddhism and Zen. The notion of Buddhism is presented in Snow Country,such as"born with hard","all in one, and in metempsychosis","nihility"etc. And the notion of Zen also pervades the spiritual world of Snow Country, such as"no joy in birth, no sorrow in death","impermanence in all"etc. The deep influence of religions in Snow Country.