The Dancing Girl of Izu
| "The Dancing Girl of Izu" | |
|---|---|
| Short story by Yasunari Kawabata | |
| Original title | Izu no odoriko | 
| Translator | E. Seidensticker (1955) J. Martin Holman (1997)  | 
| Country | Japan | 
| Language | Japanese | 
| Publication | |
| Published in | Bungei Jidai | 
| Publication type | Magazine | 
| Media type | |
| Publication date | 1926 | 
| Published in English | 1955 (abridged) | 
The Dancing Girl of Izu or The Izu Dancer (伊豆の踊子, Izu no odoriko) is a short story (or, accounting for its length, a novella) by Japanese writer and Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata first published in 1926.