Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Quotes

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The parlor may have its charms, but the Japanese toilet truly is a place of spiritual repose. It always stands apart from the main building, at the end of a corridor, in a grove fragrant with leaves and moss. No words can describe that sensation as one sits in the dim light, basking in the faint glow reflected from the shoji, lost in meditation or gazing out at the garden.

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems. How very ordinary the poems had seemed to Sachiko when she read them as a girl, but now she knew, as well as one could know, that grieving over fallen cherry blossoms was more than a fad or convention.

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Born: July 24, 1886

Died: July 30, 1965 (aged 79)

Bio: Jun'ichirō Tanizaki was 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.

Known for:

The Makioka Sisters (1949)
In Praise of Shadows (1933)
Naomi (1947)
Quicksand (1931)
Some Prefer Nettles (1929)

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