Birth in Tenma
· Tenma, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan

Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · file Kawabata was born in the Tenma area of Kita Ward, Osaka, to physician Eikichi Kawabata and Gen. This municipal chronology gives June 14; the canonical English Wikipedia article gives June 11 and notes the family-register discrepancy. Coordinates represent Tenma.