This literary monument features a passage from Yasunari Kawabata's work "Soribashi," signed by Kawabata himself: "It is more difficult to descend the Soribashi Bridge than to ascend it. I was in my mother's arms." The monument is located to the right of the Soribashi Bridge at Sumiyoshi Taisha Shrine, Osaka's most famous shrine, known for its guardian deity of navigation. Known for his poetic portrayals of the tensions of life and death, Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972), Japan's first Nobel Prize-winning author, spent his first three years in his childhood home, located in a corner of a traditional Japanese restaurant south of Osaka Tenmangu Shrine. He lost both his parents one after the other. He was raised by his grandparents in what is now Shukukushocho, Ibaraki City. However, after losing his grandmother and sister in succession, he lived with his grandfather until he turned 16. His interactions with his grandfather shortly before his death are vividly described in "Diary of a 16-Year-Old." After that, he moved to Tokyo and published a succession of masterpieces, including "The Izu Dancer" and "Snow Country," achieving great success as a writer, but he did not set many works in his hometown of Osaka, with only "Soribashi" in 1948 and "Sumiyoshi" in 1949. Let's take a tour of Sumiyoshi, Sumiyoshi Taisha Shrine, and the literary monuments within the shrine grounds to experience the literature of Kawabata Yasunari.