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	Junichiro Tanizaki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Junichiro Tanizaki (谷崎潤一郎 Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, July 24, 1886 - July 30, 1965) was a Japanese author.
		Tanizaki was one of the major writers of modern Japanese literature, and remains perhaps the most popular Japanese novelist after Natsume Soseki.
		Though his early novels paint a rich atmosphere of 1920s Tokyo and Osaka, during the 1930s Tanizaki turned away from contemporary affairs to write about Japan's feudal past, perhaps as a reaction to the growing mood of militarism in society and politics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tanizaki_Junichiro (527 words)

	Books \| Privy counsels
		Tanizaki was inspired by the play of candlelight on lacquerware, and it made him think of the sweetmeat called "yokan", whose "cloudy translucence, like that of jade; the faint, dreamlike glow that suffuses it, as if it had drunk into its very depths the light of the sun," invites careful attention.
		Tanizaki said that when yokan is served in a lacquer dish, inside the dark recesses of which its colour is scarcely distinguishable, it assumes the status of a votary object.
		Readers of Tanizaki are variously startled or entertained to find that his essay on the delights of what is muted, enclosed and refined by shadows, begins with a paean to the lavatories found in Japanese monasteries.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4514596-99931,00.html (504 words)

	LitWeb.net
		Tanizaki often uses irony and the obsessive erotic desires of his characters to mirror the influence of the West on the old cultural heritage.
		Tanizaki's studies at the university of Tokyo ended in 1910 due to a shortage of money - or according to some sources his non-payment of fees was an act of rebellion.
		Tanizaki's nostalgic love for the traditions and remnants of the past, even the rustic and worn-out, is expressed in the essay 'In Praise of Shadows' (1933-34).
	www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/tanizaki_junichiro.html (1265 words)

	Tanizaki, Junichiro on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A detailed account of an Osaka family that embraces a tradition-bound way of life, it was the first major Japanese work of the post-World War II period.
		Tanizaki often writes of women, taking as his themes obsessive love, the destructive forces of sexuality, and the dual nature of woman as goddess and demon.
		Wrapping the hole in the middle of it all: Tanizaki's narrative packages.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/Tanizaki.asp (412 words)

	Junichiro Tanizaki, Charles Moore, Edward G. Seidensticker, Thomas J. Harper - In Praise of Shadows - Book
		Tanizaki's essay contains good examples of Wabi Sabi, and a few peculiarly funny ones that reek of Zen humor: "one could with some justice claim that of all the elements of Japanese architecture, the toilet is the most aesthetic.
		Writing almost 70 years ago, Tanizaki put great value on an unique sense of beauty in Japan and regretted that it was disappearing as poeple were trying to follow the Western way of life.
		Tanizaki unhesitatingly admitted that the Western culture was in many respects superior to that of Japan, and that it was in a sense inevatble that Japan should imitate the Western lifestyle for the improvement of its living standard,and that in the process Japanese traditional lifestyle should be to some extent abandoned.
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	Interpreting Japanese Culture in Tanizaki
		Junichiro Tanizaki wrote this story in 1910 during a period in Japan when tattoo artistry was banned because it was considered “barbarism” and the Japanese people wanted to show the world that they had other forms of culture and beauty besides tattoo art (Yamada 3).
		He is also Tanizaki’s political character that reveals the oppressive Japanese government and their stance on suppressing tattoo art in the Meiji Era.
		Bleich is correct in stating that as readers we may not be clear of all the underlying images in a text, especially one from another culture, but in some way a reader will “represent a combination of the aggregate self-image, and the self-image at the time of the reading” once we “de-personalize” the text (1270).
	www.mindspring.com /~blkgrnt/footlights/foot67.html (2231 words)

	Tanizaki, Junichiro, Chijin no ai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In Tanizaki's aesthetics, the beauty of a woman is equivalent to the evil and whiteness.
		As a result, Tanizaki illustrates her as an erotic object of sexual desire, but only to secure his subjectivity by distancing her figure as the enigma, the ultimate evil, awaiting beyond the white veil (but never breaks the veil and invades the subjectivity).
		Tanizaki produces a Japanese doll of Western traits and kneel down to lick her feet.
	www.personal.psu.edu /staff/k/x/kxs334/academic/fiction/tanizaki_chijin.html (811 words)

	Seven Japanese Tales (Vintage International) by Junichiro Tanizaki - The Dark Spiral (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Getting back to this collection of tales, what impressed me most about Tanizaki's writing was his ability to completely immerse the reader in these tales, and to calmly narrate the intense and often abnormal passions of his characters.
		Tanizaki is gifted enough to be able to describe the foot in such a manner that the reader also falls in love with the girl, by just reading about the foot.
		For me, this was what made Tanizaki's writing compelling: despite (or perhaps because of) a straight-forward, precise writing style, his stories were extremely passionate and sensual.
	www.darkspiral.com /item/0679761071 (1139 words)

	The Explicator: Tanizaki's The Tattooer.(Junichiro Tanizaki)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The transfer of a large fl widow spider onto the back of a sleeping girl by the tatoo artist Seikichi conflates spider mythology from both Japanese and Western culture.
		Junichiro Tanizaki, who completed a translation of Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan (Gessel 98), was clearly influenced by both Japanese and Occidental lore.
		Tom Suzuki observes that for Tanizaki, "sexual pleasure is derived from an intense worship of the West as the origin of eroticism [...] the origin not only of beauty but also of truth and power" (165).
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:85068309&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (181 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
		Donald Keene, the preeminent scholar of Japanese literature has written (in his reminiscence of Tanizaki in 1984) that he considers this writer to be the finest that Japan has produced in the modern era.
		Francis Tanabe: I think Tanizaki deliberately chose to ignore the military and the war effort in a kind of slap against the cruder side of Japanese society.
		Tanizaki has a unique style in this novel through his use of extremely "run-on" sentences, which are descriptive and almost audible to my inner ears which are so used to the dialect.
	discuss.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/zforum/01/bookclub_tanabe0326.htm (2332 words)

	Junichiro Tanizaki -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Junichiro Tanizaki (谷崎潤一郎 Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, July 24, 1886 - July 30, 1965) was a (Click link for more info and facts about Japanese author) Japanese author.
		Leetes Island Books, which translated In Praise of Shadows, romanizes his name as Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, while Vintage, a company that translated several of his books, romanizes his name as Junichiro Tanizaki.
		Tanizaki was one of the major writers of modern (Click link for more info and facts about Japanese literature) Japanese literature, and remains perhaps the most popular (A native or inhabitant of Japan) Japanese novelist after (Click link for more info and facts about Natsume Soseki) Natsume Soseki.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ju/junichiro_tanizaki.htm (241 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Naomi: a Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Tanizaki is cited as shifting his views of the West soon after the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923 and "Naomi", published in 1924, is his work at that tipping point.
		A powerful work of perverse fiction, and a great introduction to the twisted, cerebral world of Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, I highly recommend "Naomi" to readers tired of the typical stories that are so prevalent in our modern literature and as an introduction to the world of one of the greatest 20th century Japanese authors.
		Tanizaki has masterfully drawn the reader in to show that indeed, with Love, you do not set up a schedule and a plan...
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0375724745 (1127 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Makioka Sisters (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Junichiro Tanizaki wrestled throughout his career with the idea of a country where tribes of aristocrats live as relics, grasping at the past through gestures, manners, small and intricate private laws.
		In a sense Tanizaki's book is "like life." The story of Taeko of of the youngest sister who cannot marry because custom dictates she must wait for her older sister Yukiko to be married.
		Tanizaki itself stared writing the book during the second world war, and his publication was delayed on the grounds that it apparently did not help the war effort enough.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679424520?v=glance (3482 words)

	spencer
		Tanizaki’s skill as a writer is shown by his ability to move readers seamlessly from the analytic prose of history to the imagined dialogs of the personalities invented to inhabit these paper corpses.
		Tanizaki imagines how Shigemoto as a child would have visited his mother secretly after her abduction, and then late in life would have found her in a Buddhist hermitage, his reunion with her an epiphany for him.
		Tanizaki is relevant because aestheticism is not merely an idea, an alternative on a menu of choices.
	www.siue.edu /EASTASIA/spencer_102199.htm (2518 words)

	BookkooB: The Key - Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Junichiro
		He writes about his physical and emotional relationship with his wife, and would really like his wife to read it whenever he is away because that seems to be the only way he can communicate certain things to her.
		The Key is a short novel about a couple who have reached a certain point in their marriage where they have to try radically new things in order to feel that they love each other.
		It is written in the format of diary entries, a format which in Tanizaki's hands is used to craft a beautifully written novel.
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/0099289997.htm (548 words)

	Tanizaki, Jun-Ichiro -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		As an 8-year-old Japanese schoolboy, Jun-ichiro Tanizaki wrote—in classical Chinese—a poem celebrating a military victory in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 and 1895.
		This poem was early evidence of the abilities that would make Tanizaki one of the major Japanese writers of the 20th century.
		It was established in honour of Japanese novelist Tanizaki Jun'ichiro in 1965, the year of his death.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9277262?tocId=9277262 (642 words)

	Junichiro Tanizaki Biography / Biography of Junichiro Tanizaki Biography Biography
		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.
		Eschewing the flourishing naturalism of the day, Tanizaki sought to create works of beauty through style and mood, inspired in part by the Japanese past and also by certain Western writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, and Oscar Wilde.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-junichiro-tanizaki (245 words)

	Tanizaki, Junichiro. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A prolific writer whose popularity extended through the reigns of three emperors, Tanizaki is perhaps best known for Sasameyuki (1943–48, tr.
		A detailed account of an Osaka family that embraces a tradition-bound way of life, it was the first major Japanese work of the post–World War II period.
		Tanizaki’s other novels include a modern version of The Tale of Genji; Some Prefer Nettles (1928, tr.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ta/Tanizaki.html (228 words)

	Encyclopedia: Junichiro Tanizaki
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		There are two collections in English of his short fiction: Naomi, known in Japan as Chijin no Ai (痴人の愛, meaning A Fools Love), by Junichiro Tanizaki, is a novel on the Pygmalion theme.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Junichiro-Tanizaki (1023 words)

	Diary of a Mad Old Man (Vintage International)
		tanizaki continues with his favorite form of the novel, a journal, which in itself is very trite today.
		Junichiro Tanizaki is one of the most brillant Japanese writers of the last century.
		Tanizaki is a master of illustrating sexual obsession in novels that would be erotic if they weren't so haunted and disturbed.
	www.creditrepairinformationonline.com /financial-books/isbn0679730249.html (619 words)

	Junichiro Tanizaki \| AUTHOR CATALOG
		Junichiro Tanizaki was born in Tokyo in 1886 and lived there until the earthquake of 1923, when he moved to the Kyoto-Osaka region, the scene of his novel The Makioka Sisters (1943-48).
		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.
		In The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi, Junichir Tanizaki reimagines the exploits of a legendary samurai as a sadomasochistic dance between the hero and the wife...
	www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=30534 (343 words)

	TIMEasia.com: Arts -- Seeking Credit Offshore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Japan is as renowned for its xenophobia as its tea ceremony and flower arrangement, yet just as traditionally its writers desperately strive for a place on the wider literary playing fields abroad.
		Junichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965) succeeded in making the trans-language voyage simply by being one of the 20th century's greatest writers.
		In The Secret, a bored sensualist embarks on an experiment in cross-dressing until his secret is uncovered by a former lover who has a secret of her own.
	www.time.com /time/asia/arts/magazine/0,9754,181682,00.html (822 words)

	Rebuilding A Nation: Censorship
		Tanizaki Junichiro (1886-1965), an acclaimed and established author even prior to World War II, submitted a short story entitled Mrs A 's Letters (A fujin no tegami) for publication in the August, 1946 edition of the magazine Chuo Koron.
		She was intrigued by their planes and even sketched their flight patterns.
		The story was suppressed by the Civil Censorship Detachment as "militaristic." Tanizaki's story was finally published in Chuo Koron in January 1950 with an epilogue from the author stating: "This story was originally written in the summer of 1946 (Showa 21) and was my first work after the war ended.
	www.lib.umd.edu /prange/html/exhibit/censorship.jsp (299 words)

	Syllabus for Asia 06
		Tanizaki will make us laugh, cringe, get angry--sometimes he'll just make us feel confused about what we're supposed to know about a character or a plot.
		My readings of Tanizaki have changed over the years, leading me to think that he is even funnier and more perceptive now than before.
		You be able to talk about how the works of Tanizaki and other modern writers in Japan are connected to questions of national identity, class, gender, and race.
	www.unc.edu /~bardsley/japanlit/syllabus.html (1351 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - Junichiro, Tanizaki - 2001 - Naomi Books Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Junichiro Tanizaki’s breakthrough novel, A Fool’s Love (Naomi is the English title), was originally serialized in 1924-25.
		Suspicion about the reliability of the older male narrators is certainly justified, but Nabokov and Tanizaki portray the male lovers as more innocent than what appear to be healthier (as well as younger) “partners” with simpler tastes, including sexual partners nearer their own age.
		It might be argued that she does not destroy him, either, but his pampering and ogling her destroys his career, burns through his inheritance, and destroys his self-esteem.
	www.toxicuniverse.com /review.php?rid=10002775 (1116 words)

	Naomi : A Novel (Vintage International)
		'Naomi', Tanizaki's first major novel, starts off simply: a relatively young middle-class man discovers an even younger woman, who he sees as both exotic (starting with her western-sounding name 'Naomi' and Mary Pickford-esque looks) and an exciting work-in-progress, a Japanese Pygmalion.
		The rest of the story progresses as an ever-deepening spiral of manipulation and masochism as Naomi fully exploits her role as Joji's Lolita-like object of obsession.
		Although this story was so shocking that its serialization was briefly halted, the idea of sexually-dominant women and submissive men is a theme repeated often in Tanizaki's works (perhaps the pinnacle of this theme in Tanizaki's work is the early short story 'The Tattooer' or 'Portrait of Shunkin').
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	Amazon.com: Books: Naomi : A Novel (Vintage International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		She becomes a torment to him, but he is so obsessed with her that he tolerates even her infidelities as long as she will stay with him.
		The recurrent theme in Tanizaki's novels of the danger in sexual fascination may here represent a self-criticism of his youthful preoccupation with things Western.
		This is the first Tanizaki novel I've read, and I enjoyed it a greay deal, but I hate both of the main characters.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375724745?v=glance (2452 words)

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