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Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎, Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, 24 July 1886 – 30 July 1965) was a Japanese author who is considered to be one of the most prominent figures in modern Japanese literature.
Jul 26, 2024 · Tanizaki Jun’ichirō was a major modern Japanese novelist, whose writing is characterized by eroticism and ironic wit. His earliest short stories, of which “Shisei” (1910; “The Tattooer”) is an example, have affinities with Edgar Allan Poe and the French Decadents.
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷 (たに)崎 (ざき) 潤 (じゅん)一 (いち)郎 (ろう),, Tanizaki Jun'ichirō?) was a member of the Armed Detective Agency who owned the ability named Light Snow and was the adoptive older brother of Naomi Tanizaki[4].
Oct 21, 2021 · THE MAKIOKA SISTERS by Junichiro Tanizaki | Review first published Oct. 13, 1957. Stories of rich or puissant families in decline, stories of the marrying-off of sisters, stories of the...
The Makioka Sisters (細雪, Sasameyuki, "light snow") is a novel by Japanese writer Jun'ichirō Tanizaki that was serialized from 1943 to 1948. It follows the lives of the wealthy Makioka family of Osaka from the autumn of 1936 to April 1941, focusing on the family's attempts to find a husband for the third sister, Yukiko.
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎) was a Japanese author, and one of the major writers of modern Japanese literature, perhaps the most popular Japanese novelist after Natsume Sōseki.
Naomi (痴人の愛, Chijin no Ai, lit. A Fool's Love) is a novel by Japanese author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886–1965). Writing of the novel began in 1924, and from March to June, Osaka's Morning News (大阪朝日新聞, Osaka Asahi Shinbun) published the first several chapters of the serial. Four months later, the periodical Female (女性 ...
May 29, 2018 · Junichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965) was a Japanese novelist, essayist, and playwright known for his stylistic virtuosity and depiction of unusual psychological situations. Junichiro Tanizaki, born in Tokyo, the son of a rice broker, received a conventional education.
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki has 456 books on Goodreads with 286400 ratings. Jun'ichirō Tanizaki’s most popular book is In Praise of Shadows.
TANIZAKI Jun'ichiro. Nationality: Japanese. Born: Tokyo, 24 July 1886. Education: Attended Tokyo University, 1908-10. Family: Married 1) Chiyoko Ishikawa in 1915 (divorced 1930); 2) Furukawa Tomiko in 1931 (divorced); 3) Nezu Matsuko in 1935. Awards: Mainichi prize, 1947; Asahi Culture prize, 1949; Imperial Cultural medal, 1949.
Jun 15, 2017 · Junichiro Tanizaki, chronicler of change. The Japanese novelist was a master at depicting the effect of political tides on ordinary citizens. Jun 15th 2017. By B.H. FACTS and statistics struggle...
Feb 15, 2018 · Junichiro Tanizaki’s early novel “In Black and White” uses nested murder plots to explore the guilt and responsibilities of the writing life.
Tanizaki often wrote about women and about obsessive love, the destructive forces of sexuality, and the dual nature of woman as goddess and demon. Biography. Junichiro Tanizaki was born July 24, 1886, son of the struggling owner of a printing establishment, and spent his childhood in the Nihonbashi area in the center of Tokyo. In 1889 his ...
Jun’ichir Tanizaki (tahn-ee-zahk-ee) explored Japanese traditionalism and the male infatuation with dominant women in a wide-ranging body of work embracing novels, novellas, short stories, plays,...
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Sep 26, 1995 · 4.4 686 ratings. See all formats and editions. Junichirō Tanizaki’s magisterial evocation of a proud Osaka family in decline during the years immediately before World War II is arguably the greatest Japanese novel of the twentieth century and a classic of international literature.
Dec 1, 1977 · by Junichiro Tanizaki (Author) 4.5 1,690 ratings. See all formats and editions. An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings.
In Praise of Shadows (陰翳礼讃, In'ei Raisan) is a 1933 essay on Japanese aesthetics by the Japanese author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. It was translated into English, in 1977, by the academic students of Japanese literature Thomas J. Harper and Edward Seidensticker. A new translation by Gregory Starr was published in 2017.
For Western readers, Jun’ichir Tanizaki is best known for his short stories and short novels. Throughout his career, however, he was a prolific writer of plays, essays, and translations as well....
133 quotes from Jun'ichirō Tanizaki: 'Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.', 'The older we get the more we seem to think that everything was better in the past.', and 'Whenever I see the alcove of a tastefully built Japanese room, I marvel at our comprehension of the secrets of shadows, our sensitive use of shadow and light.
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