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Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886-1965) is widely considered one of Japan's most important writers. Born in Tokyo to a family of printers, he began his literary career in 1909 and published numerous plays, essays, novels and short stories. His writing is characterised by ironic wit, subtle interpersonal dynamics and charged depictions of sexuality and cultural identity. The Tanizaki Prize, one of Japan's most prestigious awards, is named in his honour.
'Tanizaki is a monument of 20th-century Japanese literature...these stories...are undiscovered jewels...more of this sort of thing, please.' - Guardian 'One of the greatest Japanese writers... his work explores the destructive power of erotic obsessions' - Guardian 'Junichiro Tanizaki may well prove to be the outstanding Japanese novelist of this century... It is through... detail plain in language, but poetic in conception, that the blood of Tanizakis rich and mysterious art pulses' - Edmund White 'A really great writer' - David Mitchell 'Japans great modern novelist. Tanizaki created a lifelong series of ingenious variations on a dominant theme: the power of love to energize and destroy' - Chicago Tribune
