tanizaki

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I’m adding a one-act Tanizaki play to Standard Ebooks’ Tanizaki collection[1] on the 1st January.

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A surname from Japanese.

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noun

A surname from Japanese.

noun

A transliteration of the Japanese surname 谷崎

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tanizaki.

noun

A surname from Japanese.

noun

A transliteration of the Japanese surname 谷崎

Example sentences

I’m adding a one-act Tanizaki play to Standard Ebooks’ Tanizaki collection[1] on the 1st January.

Others that come to mind are Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Neruda, Borges, Italo Cavalo, Umberto Eco, Marukami, Junichiro Tanizaki and the many Asian languages to English translations.

Porter - In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki - A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz Copenhagen(play) by Michael Frayn done by BBC Radio, not really a book, but it's great.

> Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Neruda, Borges, Italo Cavalo, Umberto Eco, Marukami, Junichiro Tanizaki I know and love all those authors, but have never heard of Junichiro Tanizaki.

If you want to go even further back, Junichiro Tanizaki's The Makioka Sisters is an oddly enjoyable story of adult sisters and their shifting relationships -- if Proust is like a jungle, alive and profligate and almost obscenely lush, then Tanizaki is more like fresh-cut wood, clean and with a certain reserve and neutrality, but still alive.

But there really is a big emphasis on detachment, ephemerality and circularity in Japanese aesthetics, you can go back to writers like Tanizaki (In Praise of Shadows) and I think that comes through in the motivations that Yamashita gives for her method.

I was reading In Praise of Shadows (1933) by Japanese author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki recently, and his comments on paper made me want to go out and buy some vellum or other expensive paper to use for mundane, everyday notes and to-do lists.

Quote examples

I think you'll enjoy Junichiro Tanizaki's essay: "In Praise of Shadows"[1] on Japanese aesthetics - from toilet design to art of Kintsukuroi.

Slightly related: I love this book “In praise of shadows” by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki.

I’d also like to add - “In Praise of shadows” by Tanizaki Junichiro.

I love "In praise of Shadows" by Junichiro Tanizaki where he just talks about experiences but you can tell he is deeply opinionated [3].

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This article reminds me a lot of Tanizaki’s In Praise of Shadows essay about Japanese aesthstics.

I recommend reading Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's In Praise of Shadows, it's a fantastic read on the indirect and minimal ways in which Asian societies express creativity and aesthetics.