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  • Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
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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, 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 rather shocking world of sexuality and destructive erotic obsessions; others, less sensational, subtly portray the dynamics of family life in the context of the rapid changes in 20th-century Japanese society. Frequently his stories are narrated in the context of a search for cultural identity in which constructions of "the West" and "Japanese tradition" are juxtaposed. The results are complex, ironic, demure, and provocative.
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Birthplace
  • Tokyo Japan
Deathplace
  • Yugawara, Kanagawa, Japan
Name
  • Tanizaki Jun'ichirō
Genre
  • fiction, drama, essays, silent film scenarios
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  • Tanizaki Jun'ichirō
Birthdate
  • 1886-07-24
Deathdate
  • 1965-07-30
Occupation
  • Writer
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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, 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 rather shocking world of sexuality and destructive erotic obsessions; others, less sensational, subtly portray the dynamics of family life in the context of the rapid changes in 20th-century Japanese society. Frequently his stories are narrated in the context of a search for cultural identity in which constructions of "the West" and "Japanese tradition" are juxtaposed. The results are complex, ironic, demure, and provocative.