Mr. Kawabata relaxing in Sweden, where he visited for the Nobel Prize award ceremony.

Writer Yasunari Kawabata passes away. Kawabata as he used to be. Mr. Kawabata relaxing in Sweden, where he visited for the Nobel Prize award ceremony. Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata, 72, passed away on April 16, 1972. Kawabata Yasunari, 72, a Nobel Prize-winning author, committed suicide by gas in his apartment in Zushi, Kanagawa Prefecture, where he worked on April 16, 1972. He wrote "Diary of a Sixteen-Year-Old" when he was a boy, and published unique Kawabata literature such as "Izu no Odoriko," "Snow Country," and "The Sound of Mountains," in which he pursued the world of Japanese beauty, and won Japan's first Nobel Prize in Literature. In his old essay, "The Eyes of the Last Days," Kawabata denied his feelings about suicide, saying, "No matter how much I dislike this world, suicide is not a form of satori," and chose to die at the age of 72. Yasunari Kawabata in his earlier days. Mr. Kawabata relaxing in Sweden, where he visited for the Nobel Prize award ceremony. By Kenjiro Sekiguchi, Mainichi Graph, May 7, 1972 Cut from Mainichi Graph, May 7, 1972 (Showa 4/7), pp. 4 and 5 Sweden / Taken in December 1968