Junichiro Tanizaki
Junichiro Tanizaki
Jun'ichirō Tanizakiwas one of the major writers of modern Japanese literature, and perhaps the most popular Japanese novelist after Natsume Sōseki. Some of his works present a shocking world of sexuality and destructive erotic obsessions. Others, less sensational, subtly portray the dynamics of family life in the context of the rapid changes in 20th-century Japanese society. Frequently his stories are narrated in the context of a search for cultural identity in which constructions of "the West" and "Japanese tradition" are...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 July 1886
CountryJapan
Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.
Each worm to his taste; some prefer to eat nettles.