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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...
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  • In Praise of Shadows (category Works by Junichiro Tanizaki)
    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...
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  • Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎, Tanizaki Jun'ichirō) Voiced by: Toshiyuki Toyonaga (Japanese); Spike Spencer (English) Named after Jun'ichirō Tanizaki....
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  • The Tanizaki Prize (谷崎潤一郎賞 Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Shō), named in honor of the Japanese novelist Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, is one of Japan's most sought-after literary...
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  • Japanese author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. It was written in serial format between 1928 and 1930 for the magazine Kaizō. The last of Tanizaki's major novels translated...
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  • The Key (Japanese: 鍵, Hepburn: Kagi) is a novel by Japanese writer Jun'ichirō Tanizaki first published in 1956. The entire story is told in diary form,...
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  • Hepburn: Fūten rōjin nikki) is a 1961 novel by Japanese author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886–1965). Written and published shortly before the author’s death...
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  • Takemitsu. In the preface for Donald Keene's book Bunraku, writer Jun'ichirō Tanizaki complained about the too-long endings known to be common in double...
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  • The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi (category Novels by Junichiro Tanizaki)
    History of the Lord of Musashi (武州公秘話, Bushukō hiwa) is a novel by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. It was serialized in publisher Hakubunkan's magazine Shin Seinen...
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  • The Makioka Sisters (category Novels by Junichiro Tanizaki)
    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...
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  • Junichiro Kono, Japanese-American electrical and computer engineer Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎, 1886–1965), Japanese writer Junichiro Yasui (安井 潤一郎, born...
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    Naomi (novel) (category Novels by Junichiro Tanizaki)
    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...
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  • Arrowroot (novel) (category Novels by Junichiro Tanizaki)
    (吉野葛, Yoshino Kuzu, "Yoshino Arrowroot") is a novella written by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. It consists of six chapters: The Heavenly King; Iimoseyama; The...
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    three major Japanese writers of the 20th century: Yasunari Kawabata, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, and Yukio Mishima. His landmark translations of novels by Kawabata...
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  • Mats Strandberg and Sara Bergmark Elfgren, 2013 The Key (Tanizaki novel), by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1956 "The Key" (short story), by Isaac Asimov, 1966 The...
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    Dostoevsky, William Faulkner, Richard Ford, George Saunders, and Jun'ichirō Tanizaki as influences. He is a fan of the Chicago Cubs. He is also an avid...
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  • Manji (film) (category Films based on works by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki)
    Japanese films based on the Japanese novel Quicksand written by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki in 1928. The theme is sexual excess, and includes homosexuality between...
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    wabi-sabi can be found in the influential essay In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. Other examples include: The cultivation of bonsai (miniature trees)...
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    Neo-romanticism came out of anti-naturalism and was led by Kafū Nagai, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Kōtarō Takamura, Hakushū Kitahara and others in the early 1910s...
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    book on Japanese aesthetics and architecture, In Praise of Shadows, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki comments on the role of shoji in the interaction of light and shadows...
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    1926). At this time, Akutagawa had a highly publicized dispute with Jun'ichirō Tanizaki over the importance of structure versus lyricism in stories. Akutagawa...
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    Key, Jefery Levy's adaptation of the novel by Nobel Prize laureate Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. In October 2014, Bai was a member of the jury in the "India Gold...
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    novelists in the early 20th century, followed by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Kafū Nagai and, more recently, Haruki Murakami and Kenji Nakagami...
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  • translated as "The Diary of a Madman" Diary of a Mad Old Man, a novel by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Diary of a Madman, a memoir by rapper Scarface Diary of a Madman...
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  • Some Prefer Nettles (category Novels by Junichiro Tanizaki)
    Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. It was first published in 1928–9 as a newspaper serial. The novel is often regarded as the most autobiographical of Tanizaki's works...
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  • Odd Obsession (category Films based on works by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki)
    film directed by Kon Ichikawa. It is based on the novel The Key by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. Art historian Kenji Kenmochi is married to the much younger Ikuko...
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  • Mr. Bluemound (category Works by Junichiro Tanizaki)
    (Aozuka-shi no Hanashi) is a short story by the Japanese author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, first published in 1926. Yurako is an actress whose husband, Nakada...
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  • "Naomi" (song), by Neutral Milk Hotel Naomi (novel), a 1924 novel by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Naomi (comics), a 2019 miniseries published by DC Comics under the...
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  • Manji, the original Japanese title of the 1928 novel Quicksand by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Manji (film), the title of several film adaptations of the novel...
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    berlinese), made in 1985, was loosely based on the novel Quicksand by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. Set in Berlin in 1938, on the verge of war, the film tells the story...
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