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Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
An intimate reflection on Japanese art and architecture from one of the country’s greatest novelists. This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists.
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Tanizaki’s masterpiece is the story of four sisters, and the declining fortunes of a traditional Japanese family. It is a loving and nostalgic recreation of the sumptuous, intricate upper-class life…
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Presents a tale of a middle-aged man deeply in love with his younger wife. In spite of that love, they have grown physically apart, each unsure of the other’s thoughts…
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In Childhood Years, originally published serially in a literary magazine between 1955 and 1956, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965) takes a meandering look back on his early life in Tokyo. He reflects…
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The Tattooer is the first publish work by Junichiro Tanizaki, one of the major authors in the modern Japanese tradition. In the story, a tattoo artist inscribes a giant spider…
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This tale of domestic oppression centres on the once prosperous, now declining, Makiota family which is struggling to marry off one of their daughters. A portrait of a family and…
A new selection and translation of short stories by a hugely prominent classic Japanese writer, filled with eroticism and fantasy
The novella and two short stories in this lucid translation reveal Tanizaki at both his best and his most bizarre
These two short novels, published in the early 1930’s ranked high in Tanizaki’s own estimation of his work.
The marriage of Kaname and Misako is disintegrating: whilst seeking passion and fulfilment in the arms of others, they contemplate the humiliation of divorce.
While recovering from a stroke, seventy-seven-year-old Utsugi turns to his diary to wryly record his struggle with his ageing body and his growing desire for his beautiful daughter-in-law Satsuko, a…
This volume includes four short stories and three novellas by the acclaimed Japanese novelist Jun'ichiro Tanizaki. These early works were published in the Jun'ichiro Tanizaki edition of "Japanese Detective Novels"…
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These two modern classics by the great Japanese novelist Junichiro Tanizaki, both utilize the diary form to explore the authority that love and sex have over all.
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Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady, unfortunately widowed young. This work presents a tale of infatuation and deceit, of eliberate evil. Its theme is humiliation, its victim Sonoko’s mild-mannered…
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Six short stories by Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965), capturing the breadth of his literary oeuvre
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Jun'ichiro Tanizaki’s In Black and White is a literary murder mystery in which the lines between fiction and reality are blurred. The writer Mizuno has penned a story about the…
Tanizaki Jun'ichir? (1886-1965), the author of Naomi; A Cat, a Man, and Two Women and The Makioka Sisters, was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The four…
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki is one of the most prominent Japanese writers of the twentieth century. This book presents three powerful stories of family from the first decade of Tanizaki’s career. Written…
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Jun'ichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965) was one of the most renowned and popular modern Japanese authors and a major literary figure. Though he is best known for his postwar novels, such as…
Thomas LaMarre
The impact of media and technologies has renewed interest in the emergence of cinema and film criticism. Through the translation and analysis of Tanizaki Jun'ichiro’s film work, this work provides…
Luisa Bienati,Bonaventura Ruperti
Collects nine assessments of Tanizaki’s relationship with the classical literary tradition, in honor of the contributions of one of the great modernist’s most tireless scholars
Anthony Chambers
Provides previously unpublished memories, anecdotes, and insights into the lives, opinions, personalities, and writings of the great novelist Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965) and his wife Matsuko (1903-1991), gleaned from the diaries…
Atsuko Sakaki
Through close reading of photography-inspired texts by Tanizaki, Abe, Horie and Kanai, The Rhetoric of Photography in Modern Japanese Literature by Atsuko Sakaki examines the Japanese literary engagement with photography…
