Junichiro Tanizaki
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Junichiro Tanizaki 🇯🇵

谷崎 潤一郎
["Novelist", "Short Story Writer", "Essayist"]
Born Jul 24, 1886 🇯🇵 Nihonbashi (Tokyo), Japan
Passed Away Jul 30, 1965 Yugawara (Kanagawa), Japan
Lifespan 79 years old
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"We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing provides against another."

Archival Overview

Japanese novelist celebrated for The Makioka Sisters, Some Prefer Nettles, and In Praise of Shadows, master of traditional Japanese aesthetics and subtle erotic obsessions.

Biographical Record

Junichiro Tanizaki (1886–1965) began his career captivated by Western decadence before the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake prompted his relocation to the Kansai region, where he deeply immersed himself in traditional Japanese aesthetics and dialects.

In 1933, he published the celebrated aesthetic essay 'In Praise of Shadows' ('In'ei Raisan'), contrasting Western glare with the subtle beauty of shadows in Japanese architecture and lacquerware. His epic novel 'The Makioka Sisters' ('Sasameyuki') chronicled the fading elegance of an Osaka merchant family on the eve of World War II.

Key Life Milestones

1933

Publication of 'In Praise of Shadows'

Published the definitive essay on traditional Japanese aesthetics of gloom and lacquer.

1948

The Makioka Sisters

Completed his four-volume panoramic family saga capturing pre-war Kansai cultural life.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Honen-in Cemetery
Kyoto, Japan
GPS: 35.0239, 135.7958
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