Yasunari Kawabata's Birth Card: The 6 of Diamonds

In the record

Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成, Kawabata Yasunari; Japanese pronunciation: [ka.wa.ba.ta (|) ja.sɯꜜ.na.ɾʲi], 11 June 1899 – 16 April 1972) was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award. The birth-card coordinate for June 11 is the 6 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1968 Literature prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1968 The Nobel Prize in Literature — for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind

The 6 of Diamonds coordinate

Yasunari Kawabata's birthday maps to the 6 of Diamonds (The Generous Provider). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Yasunari Kawabata. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move resources toward other people without erasing your own claim.

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Yasunari Kawabata in the public record

His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read. Born into a well-established family in Osaka, Japan, Kawabata was orphaned by the time he was four, after which he lived with his grandparents. He had an older sister who was taken in by an aunt, and whom he met only once thereafter, in July 1909, when he was ten. She died when Kawabata was 11. Kawabata's grandmother died in September 1906, when he was seven, and his grandfather in May 1914, when he was fifteen. Having lost all close paternal relatives, Kawabata moved in with his mother's family, the Kurodas. However, in January 1916, he moved into a boarding house near the junior high school (comparable to a modern high school) to which he had formerly commuted by train. After graduating in March 1917, Kawabata moved to Tokyo just before his 18th birthday.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Yasunari Kawabata (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 9 of Clubs

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His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.

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Also on the record

1. He hoped to pass the entrance exams for the First Higher School, a university-preparatory institution that sent most of its graduates to the University of Tokyo, the country's most prestigious university.
2. He was admitted in September 1917.
3. Initially finding dormitory life unsatisfying, he took an eight-day trip to Izu in 1918, after which he got on much better with his dormmates.
4. After graduating from the First Higher School, he secured admission to the Faculty of Letters at Tokyo University as he had hoped and matriculated in July 1920, studying English literature.

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FAQ

What is Yasunari Kawabata's birth card?

The 6 of Diamonds. June 11 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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