Books by Junichiro Tanizaki
Seven Japanese Tales
by Junichiro Tanizaki & translated by Howard Hibbett
A Portrait of Shunkin
Terror
The Bridge of Dreams
The Tattooer
The Thief
Aguri
The Blind Man's Tale
“Tanizaki is mourning what has been paved over, which is the old Japanese aesthetic of darkness, of softness, of appreciating the imperfect—rather than the cold, glossy surfaces of industrialized modernity that the West had brought to Japan at that moment. For me, that’s really valuable, because it does preserve a different way of looking at the world.” Read more...
Kyle Chayka, Art Historians, Critics & Curator
Interviews where books by Junichiro Tanizaki were recommended
The best books on Minimalism, recommended by Kyle Chayka
In times of political or personal turmoil, there’s a tendency to seek solace in stripping back life to its bare essentials. Minimalist thought is threaded through Stoicism and Zen Buddhism; absence and space became major preoccupations of 1960s US art. Kyle Chayka, the art critic and author of The Longing for Less, recommends five books on the philosophy that underpins the present fad for minimalist self-help.
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Seven Japanese Tales
by Junichiro Tanizaki & translated by Howard Hibbett -
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No Longer Human
by Osamu Dazai & translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter -
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The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Yukio Mishima, translated by Ivan Morris -
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The Box Man
by Kobo Abe & translated by E. Dale Saunders -
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami & translated by Jay Rubin
The Best 20th Century Japanese Novels, recommended by Rie Qudan
The Best 20th Century Japanese Novels, recommended by Rie Qudan
We asked Rie Qudan, author of the award-winning novel Sympathy Tower Tokyo, to recommend her favourite Japanese novels. She selected five 20th century classics that highlight different aspects of Japanese sensibility — from the aesthetics and obsessive devotion of a 1933 novella by Tanizaki, to the desire and alienation of a 1994 Murakami novel.
