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	Free Essays on The Makioka Sisters
		Throughout Tanizaki’s The Makioka Sisters the essence of the novel is captured using subtlety to describe the timeless cyclical changes in nature, thus revealing and enhancing the acceptance of the unavoidable impermanence that is woven into the sister’s lives and experiences.
		Throughout the novel the sisters are constantly exposed to the beauties and destruction that the cycles of nature produce, changing and affecting their lives for brief and lengthy durations.
		The thread of impermanence is woven through the novel with the changing seasons and flourishing cherry blossoms, revealing the essence of change within nature and in turn, within the Makioka family.
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	Movies Other\| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Or The Makioka Sisters (1983; August 19 at 1 p.m.), where the languid, strolling beauty of the protagonists, four sisters in a fading aristocratic family in pre—World War II Osaka, matches the sedentary beauty of the trees during the annual cherry blossom festival.
		The movie, like Mishima’s novel, is set in the ’40s, and it’s easy to connect the young protagonist’s anguish at failing to find in the temple a reflection of the life he’s been thrown into with the anguish of his country after the humiliation of defeat.
		The Makioka Sisters is my favorite Ichikawa; it’s one of the most visually stunning movies ever made, one of the few authentic masterpieces released during the 1980s, and one of the most intelligent adaptations I know of a first-rate novel.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/movies/reviews/documents/01742135.htm (1336 words)

	The Makioka Sisters (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Taeko, the youngest, impatient with waiting for her older sister to marry in order to be able to get married herself (older sisters were married first), flings herself into affairs with men of dubious character or social standing.
		The sisters were modeled after the author's third wife Matsuko (Sachiko in the novel) and her sisters.
		The novel's primary theme is the fading of traditional Japanese culture, as Tanizaki saw it being replaced by the processes of modernization, Westernization, and militarization.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Makioka_Sisters_(novel) (492 words)

	Japanese Films - by Michael Grost (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		She also still controls the family purse strings, giving the other sisters a monthly allowance, and holding on to the dowries of the two youngest, still unmarried sisters.
		The well to do husbands of the two elder sisters are the result of arranged marriages, none seems to have any friends or social life that does not revolve around the sisters, and their children are raised by servants.
		It is normal for the sister to hire private detectives to examine the credentials of the various bachelors uncovered.
	hometown.aol.com /mg4273/japanese.htm (2976 words)

	The Makioka Sisters (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tsuruko Makioka: The eldest Makioka sister is described as being phlegmatic, and most of her voice throughout the novel is heard through letters she sends to her sisters.
		Tsuruko lives in the "main" Makioka house in Osaka, and is not only removed physically from her sisters, who live in a branch house in Ashiya, but also seems to be removed emotionally.
		The Makioka Sisters is strikingly Austenesque, in that its main theme is marriage and its main characters are strong females with the males as almost peripheral characters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Makioka_Sisters_(film) (649 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Makioka Sisters: Books: Junichiro Tanizaki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Japanese biographers of Tanizaki tend to agree that the novel is very thinly-disguised autobiography, a lovingly detailed recreation of the happiest period of the author's life: the early years of his marriage to his third wife Matsuko.
		All this notwithstanding, perhaps the most interesting thing about the novel is its ambiguity: out of the three sisters (the fourth, Tsuruko, being a very minor character, although this does also apply to her, to an extent), only one, Sachiko (the novel's de facto protagonist, I suppose), is made entirely psychologically comprehensible by Tanizaki.
		The Makiokas still hold on strongly to a way of life that provides an almost religious structure to their existence, but that also is a straightjacket for especially the youngest of the sisters.
	www.amazon.ca /Makioka-Sisters-Junichiro-Tanizaki/dp/0679761640 (2723 words)

	himatsuri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Instead it focuses on the lives of the four Makioka sisters, the surviving daughters of a prominent merchant family.
		The elder Makioka sisters represent the past, especially in their search for a husband for Yukiko, who by tradition must marry before the youngest sister, Taeko.
		He had long thought about making a film based on Tanizaki's novel, and the booming 1980's proved to be the perfect time to revisit the novel's reflections on the end of traditional values and mercantilism.
	academic.evergreen.edu /curricular/japan/makioka.htm (336 words)

	The Makioka Sisters
		Tanizaki wrote The Makioka Sisters after translating the Tale of Genji into modern Japanese and the Murasaki novel is said to have influenced his own.
		The youth and beauty of the Makioka sisters and their world is to scatter in the wind like the petals of so many cherry blossoms.
		The Makioka Sisters is very much a story about a family, a nation, and a culture on the brink of violent change.
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	Voyager: In Depth: The Makioka Sisters
		The blossoms reflect the magnificent Makiokas themselves as they glide through the frame in luminous kimonos, epitomizing the ideals of feminine refinement and grace that are fading before Westernization.
		But Yakiko, the most traditional sister, is woefully obstinate, and the baby sister, Taeko, is rebellious -- she wants to use her dowry to pursue her art and business: dollmaking.
		His recollection of Yukiko and her sisters in the cherry blossoms crowns this lyrical and moving remembrance of Japan past.
	www.dvduell.de /criterion_website/criterion/indepth-5.html (743 words)

	The Makioka Sisters, buy cheap online. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The novel relates how the once grand Makioka family clings desperately to the past as it copes unsuccessfully with its declining fortunes and social status, and the encroaching tide of modernity.
		The Makioka sisters' growing desperation is evocatively captured in their endless shuttles between their beloved hometown Osaka and the increasingly dominant but alien metropolis Tokyo, and in their many failed attempts to marry off the third sister, Yukiko, which according to Japanese tradition, must precede any marriage proposal for the rebellious youngest sister, Taeko.
		The novel is longer than most and moves at a pace which reveres eastern tradition while assimilating western forms, in short, this is a perfectly poised work that does not sacrifice anything to short term gain nor martyr itself for some unwinnable cause.
	www.priceoo.ca /p4115-the-makioka-sisters.html (3402 words)

	review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Set in the years before Japan’s entry into World War II, The Makioka Sisters follows the lives of four sisters and their families as they struggle to cope with the demands of Japanese tradition, Western modernity, and the conflict between these two forces.
		Thus the Makioka sisters find themselves in the grip of a vicious circle that dominates their lives and colors all of their interactions with the rest of society.
		The depth and complexity of The Makioka Sisters indicate Tanizaki meant his novel to be aimed at all readers.
	www.wibemedia.com /makioka.html (1067 words)

	SJF Seeks SJM For Cherry Blossom-Viewing -- ThingsAsian Article
		The novel is remarkably silent on its historical context.
		The novel's characters are constantly aware of which dialect is being used, and often switch as occasion requires.
		The Makioka Sisters is a romance in the sense that, though the characters are shipwrecked countless times, they ultimately enter calm seas and drop anchor at friendly shores.
	www.thingsasian.com /goto_article/article.1890.html (1231 words)

	Tanizaki Junichiro
		This masochistic submission gives the novel a strong romantic theme (that I can't imagine in Soseki, for example), where the man is knowingly obsessed by the woman to the degree that he becomes her absolute slave--a theme which is very common in Tanizaki, early and late.
		Tanizaki's novels tend to satisfy the Western reader's sense of plot better than most Japanese novels, and there are many Western students of Japanese literature who consider him the best Japanese novelist largely on those grounds, considering his well-plotted longest novel, The Makioka Sisters, the best Japanese novel.
		It is a remarkable novel in the full picture of the Japanese life of a traditional Osaka family of wealthy merchants presented, and there is a remarkable Japanese film version of the novel, not only reflecting the detail of that life, but presenting scenes of fantastic scenic beauty.
	www.washburn.edu /reference/bridge24/Tanizaki.html (1048 words)

	Blather Bookstore: Junichiro Tanizaki - The Makioka Sisters
		The Makiokas' preoccupations are very much removed from those of the heavily militarised society of the time.
		Sachiko is married to the genial, literary Teinosuke and he allows her unmarried sisters Yukiko and Taeko to live with them.
		There is a subtle sadness throughout the novel, a tension which creates a constant expectation that the family is about to decline further.
	www.blather.net /bookstore/tanizaki_makioka.html (355 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.
		The Makioka sisters are not all that typical since they come from a very privileged family.
		Was Tanazaki aware of his 'quiet rebellion'against the militarism of his government during the time of his writing of "The Makioka Sister" -- i.e.
	discuss.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/zforum/01/bookclub_tanabe0326.htm (2332 words)

	Amazon.com: The Makioka Sisters: Books: Junichiro Tanizaki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		At one point Sachiko, the second sister and the most important one in the novel, watches her young daughter and her German friends plays with dolls and the German girl accurately tells where babies come from.
		Perhaps not as much as one might think, since the Makiokas write their German friends that they are pleased that their ally is doing so well in the summer of 1940.
		Before commenting on how the Makiokas have escaped the trap of ideology, and before making comparisons to Jane Austen, one should consider while reading this novel the idea that such privatism is essential to such a regime.
	www.amazon.com /Makioka-Sisters-Vintage-International/dp/0679761640 (3230 words)

	Home Theater Forum - Track the Films You Watch (2005)
		Directed by Kon Ichikawa, and (as I understand it) based on a very successful Japanese novel, this is the story of four sisters in Osaka in the late 1930s.
		The two older ones, both of whom are married, try to find suitable mates for the two younger ones, focusing intensely on marrying the older of the two first (for cultural reasons).
		The Makioka Sisters is a beautifully filmed journey through the life of the titular family, with very good performances from all of the main players.
	www.hometheaterforum.com /htforum/printpost.php?postid=2637167 (451 words)

	Reading Group Guide: Inheritance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Q: Your novel, Inheritance, explores a family rift that is intensified by the split between mainland China and Taiwan.
		Early in the novel, two brothers are divided by their political views.
		A: I began researching the novel with the rather idealistic notion that I’d somehow be able to recapture the world of China in the 1930s and 1940s.
	www.wwnorton.com /rgguides/inheritancergg.htm (1790 words)

	Movie Info for The Makioka Sisters on MSN Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Makioka Sisters will probably best be appreciated by those with an intimate knowledge of 20th century Japanese culture.
		We see the shifting political and social scene through their eyes, with director Kon Ichikawa (who adapted the film from Junichiro Tanikazi's novel) conveying the proper sense of confusion and distraction.
		Makioka Sisters, sometimes listed as Makica Sisters, has also been released under the title Fine Snow.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=177007 (125 words)

	VIKRAM SETH
		For it is, like the Japanese novel, at its heart an elegy as well as a comedy of manners, about a traditional society in a time of change, and about a leisurely world of graces giving way to a new, more democratic time.
		The 1,349 page novel is considered to be the longest novel in a single volume.
		A novel 381 pages long published by Viking is the story of Michael,a lonely, brooding violinist who lives in London with the memories of Julia- the "making of me", the pianist with whom he made such melody.
	www.rigzin.freeservers.com /vikramseth.htm (596 words)

	Readers' Services Annotations - Reviews
		The lives of the four Makioka sister are depicted day to day and seemingly nothing much happens.
		The focus of the novel is on finding a suitable husband for Yokiko, the third sister.
		The birth and death of an illegitimate child to the youngest sister marks the nadir of the novel.
	www.skokie.lib.il.us /Annotations/BookReview.asp?BookID=493 (145 words)

	The sputnik sweetheart : a novel by Haruki Murakami \| LibraryThing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The sputnik sweetheart : a novel by Haruki Murakami
		This was the first Murakami novel I read and it remains, thus far, my favourite.
		Don't expect tidy answers; once again it is a postmodern novel so those are rare and almost non-existent.
	www.librarything.com /card_social.php?work=74326 (585 words)

	The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0679761640 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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	A love letter to the novel - complete with reading list \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		She decided to shut her laptop, walk away from her own novel, and devote herself instead to reading and enjoying 100 great novels by others.
		Or her notion that the novel has fundamentally changed the institution of marriage by holding it up for closer examination.
		They catalog the 100 novels Smiley read, her reasons for choosing them, and her reactions to them.
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/0913/p14s01-bogn.html (979 words)

	Free Term Papers on Sisters Hermanas
		In the novel Sisters/Hermanas, Gary Paulsen goes into depth on how a difference in an exterior point of view, will never mean that things are different on the inside.
		In his novel, Sisters/Hermanas, Gary Paulsen shows that two girls from opposite ends of the social “spectrum” can experience similar crucibles, thus creating a type of sisterhood based n experiences.
		Everything on the inside, their souls, their character could be labeled as sisters, which is exactly why the author named the book Sisters/Hermanas, though the spelling is different, the language isn’t the same, and it doesn’t look alike on paper, it means the same thing, just like Rosa and Tracy.
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	Amazon.de: A Suitable Boy: Novel, a: English Books: Vikram Seth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Here he abandons the compression of poetry to produce an enormous novel that will enthrall most readers; those who are fazed by a marathon read, however, may gasp for mercy.
		Set in the post-colonial India of the 1950s, this sprawling saga involves four families--the Mehras, the Kapoors, the Chatterjis and the Khans--whose domestic crises illuminate the historical and social events of the era.
		On one level, it is a fun and enjoyable tale of one girl's mother and her search for a marriageable boy for her daughter; on another level, it is an examination of arranged marriage, independence, individualism, love, family, poverty, politics, prostitution and Indian culture.
	www.amazon.de /Suitable-Boy-Novel-Vikram-Seth/dp/0060925000 (921 words)

	Essay Wiz - Helping to make writing essays a breeze... - 117-023
		A 5 page paper on the way the characters of the four sisters in Tanizaki's classic novel epitomize a conflict of values, and values in transition in pre-war Japan.
		The paper concludes that despite the fact that both mothers and daughters experience problems communicating with one another, Tan suggests that it is only through the effort of breaking down these barriers that daughters are able to discover who they really are.
		Each of them borrows traits from the others as the novel progresses, so that by the end, each brother is a more complete person than he was at the start.
	www.essaywiz.com /categories/117-023.html (760 words)

	Week8, Japanese 231, Spring 1998 at OSU
		Novel - Lady Murasaki - characters' psychology - very modern; concubines of Genji
		The Makioka Sisters (1943-8)-miyabi, monono aware, family affairs
		I Novel (Early Taisho Period) Shin Risoo-shugi (Shirakaba-ha) (Shiga, etc.) <-> fiction <-> Shin Roman-shugi (Tanizaki etc.), Shin genjutsu-shugi (Akutagawa)
	people.cohums.ohio-state.edu /nakayama1/j231/Literature.htm (248 words)

	HISTORY OF JAPAN: ESSAY TWO
		Using examples and illustrations provided by Natsume Soseki's Kokoro OR Junichiro Tanizaki's The Makioka Sisters, explore insights into modern Japanese life gained as a result of having read these works of fiction.
		Limit your discussion to a set of related topics unified by an overarching thesis utilizing the novel as a source of illustration; avoid a superficial descriptive overview of the novel's contents or an evaluation of the work's literary value / impact / importance.
		Makela (l.makela@popmail.csuohio.edu) for the use of students at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, who are enrolled in HIS 371 / 571, History of Japan during the Spring Quarter of the 1997 - 1998 Academic Year; please contact him with any comments.
	www.csuohio.edu /history/courses/his371/eas02.html (159 words)

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