Word: yamata
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lady of Beauty, by Kikou Yamata. An aristocratic lady of prewar Japan profiled in a novel as spare and beautiful as Fujiyama at dawn (TIME...
LADY OF BEAUTY (192 pp.) - Kikou Yamata-John...
...Japanese say that in the finest tea one can taste the water with which it was made. Lady of Beauty is just such a subtle cup of literary tea. In it, Kikou Yamata, daughter of a Japanese diplomat and a French mother, tells the story of Nobuko Hayashi, aloof, highborn and exquisite, and how the war racked and finally killed her without using a bullet or a bomb. At once surface and symbol, Lady of Beauty is a quiet requiem for a culture as well as a person, by a mourner who remains charmingly alive...
Melancholy but graceful, Lady of Beauty is steeped in the sights and sounds and rituals of Japanese life. As if to signify her own conviction that the old Japan is dead. Author Yamata now shuttles be tween Paris and the shores of Lake Leman with her Swiss painter husband. Yet she recalls the self-exiled Joyce, who could write only of Dublin: while Author Yamata may have left Japan, Japan will never wholly leave her-or anyone who opens her finespun novel...