One Arm (かたうで, Kataude) is a short story by Japanese writer and Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata.
[1] It has been considered as a main example of the current of magic realism in Japanese Literature.
[2] A young woman removes her right arm and gives it to a man (the protagonist) to keep for the night.
The "relationship" the man has with the severed arm serves as a portal into the landscape of memory and emotions.
The story was first translated into English as One Arm by Edward Seidensticker and published in Japan Quarterly in 1967.