is the name Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata gave to 146 short stories he wrote during his long career. The earliest stories were published in the early 1920s, with the last appearing posthumously in 1972. The first Japanese edition to collect these stories appeared in 1971. The title refers to the brevity of the stories – many of which are only two to three pages long – which would "virtually fit into the palm of the hand". Style and themes For Susan J. Napier in the Monumenta Nipponica, Kawabata's brief stories express the facets of his novels, while at the same time "providing an intensity of focus that is the essence of Kawabata's celebrated 'haiku-esque' style", working with "evocations and suggestions". Often, the stories focus "on feelings rather than understanding", presenting "the chaos of the human heart", and depict "epiphanies, transformations and revelations". Reviewers also pointed out a "delicate lyricism" and "warmth and fragility" as well as a "cool formalism" and "sharp experimental intention and edge". Kawabata reportedly claimed to feel most at ease with the short-story form and explained that, while other writers tended to writing poetry in their early years, he wrote his Palm-of-the-Hand Stories. Stories (selected) A Sunny Place (Hinata, 1923) The Weaker Vessel (Yowaki utsuwa, 1924) The Girl Who Approached the Fire (Hi ni yuku kanojo, 1924) A Saw and Childbirth (Nokogiri to shussan, 1924) The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket (Batta to suzumushi, 1924) The Watch (時計) The Ring (Yubiwa, 1924) Hair (Kami, 1924) Canaries (Kanariya, 1924) Harbor Town (Minato, 1924) Photograph (Shashin, 1924) The White Flower (Shiroi hana, 1924) Enemy (敵) The Moon (Tsuki) The Setting Sun (落日) The Incident of the Dead Face (Shinigao no dekigoto, 1925) Chastity under the Roof (屋根の下の貞操) The Sea (海, c. 1925) Glass (Garasu, 1925) The O-Shin Jizō (Oshin jizō, 1925) The Sliding Rock (Suberi iwa, 1925) Thank You (Arigatō, 1925) Hurrah (Banzai) The Silverberry Thief (Gumi nusutto, 1925) Summer Shoes (Natsu no kutsu, 1926) A Child's Viewpoint (Kodomo no tachiba, 1926) Love Suicides (Shinjū, 1926) The Princess of the Dragon Palace (竜宮の乙姫) The Maidens' Prayers (Shojo no inori, 1926) Toward Winter (Fuyu chikashi, 1926) The Sparrow's Matchmaking (Suzume no baishaku, 1926) The Hat Incident (Bōshi jiken, 1926) One Person's Happiness (Hitori no kōfuku, 1926) There Is a God (Kami imasu, 1926) Hands (合掌) Goldfish on the Roof (Okujō no kingyo, 1926) The Money Road (金銭の道) Mother (Haha, 1926)