The Inheritance Relationship between Yasunari Kawabata's Works and Japanese Traditional Literature

Yasunari Kawabata's works combine Japanese literature with neo-psychology and stream-of-consciousness novels, that is to say, they combine the Japanese literary tradition with the Western modernist methods including expressionism, Dadaism, neo-psychology and stream-of-consciousness novels. Representative works of this period include <<The Beast>>, <<The Flower Dance>> and <<The Snow Country>>. In his own words: I have been baptized by modern Western literature and have tried to imitate it, but I am an Oriental at heart and have never lost my way since 15 years ago.