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    The Key

    Jun'ichiro Tanizaki,Tanizaki Jun'ichiro

    Presents a tale of a middle-aged man deeply in love with his younger wife. In spite of that love, they have grown physically apart, each unsure of the other’s thoughts…

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    The Makioka Sisters (Vintage Classics Japanese Series)

    Junichiro Tanizaki

    Vintage Japanese Classics - following on from the success of Vintage Russian Classics and European Classics, these are covetable new editions of the best Japanese writers on the Vintage list

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    In Praise of Shadows: Vintage Design Edition

    Junichiro Tanizaki

    This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. Tanizaki’s eye ranges over architecture, jade, food, toilets, and combines an acute sense of the use…

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    In Praise of Shadows

    Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

    An intimate reflection on Japanese art and architecture from one of the country’s greatest novelists. This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists.

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    Naomi

    Junichiro Tanizaki

    A hilarious story of one man’s obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation’s cultural confusion-from a master Japanese novelist.

    When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage waitress…

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    Diary of a Mad Old Man

    Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

    While recovering from a stroke, seventy-seven-year-old Utsugi turns to his diary to wryly record his struggle with his ageing body and his growing desire for his beautiful daughter-in-law Satsuko, a…

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    The Reed Cutter and Captain Shigemoto’s Mother: Two Novellas

    Junichiro Tanizaki

    In these two novellas, translated by Anthony H. Chambers and appearing in paperback for the first time, Tanizaki probes the translucent screen that separates idealized yearning from humiliating obsession in…

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    Seven Japanese Tales

    Junichiro Tanizaki

    In these seven stories, the author of The Makioka Sisters explores the territory where love becomes self-annihilation, where the contemplation of beauty gives way to fetishism, and where tradition becomes…

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    The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi and Arrowroot: Two Novels

    Junichiro Tanizaki

    From the renowned author of The Makioka Sisters come two slyly witty and psychologically sophisticated novels of sexual and romantic obsession. Tanizaki reimagines the exploits of a legendary 16th century…

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    The Makioka Sisters

    Junichiro Tanizaki

    Tanizaki’s masterpiece is the story of four sisters, and the declining fortunes of a traditional Japanese family. It is a loving and nostalgic recreation of the sumptuous, intricate upper-class life…

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    In Praise of Shadows

    Junichiro Tanizaki

    An intimate reflection on Japanese art and architecture from one of the country’s greatest novelists. This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists.

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    In Praise of Shadows

    Junichiro Tanizaki

    This eloquent work on the Japanese sense of beauty explores the subtle interplay of shade and light in several important aspects of Japanese life - architecture, drama, food, femininity and…

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    The Secret History Of The Lord Of Musashi

    Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

    These two short novels, published in the early 1930’s ranked high in Tanizaki’s own estimation of his work.

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    Some Prefer Nettles

    Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

    The marriage of Kaname and Misako is disintegrating: whilst seeking passion and fulfilment in the arms of others, they contemplate the humiliation of divorce.

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    The Maids

    Junichiro Tanizaki

    A major discovery: Tanizaki’s wonderful final novel-now available as a paperback

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    Devils in Daylight

    Junichiro Tanizaki

    Now in paperback, a suspenseful early novella from the outstanding Japanese novelist of this century (Edmund White).

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    A Cat, A Man, and Two Women

    Junichiro Tanizaki

    A novella and two short stories reveal Tanizaki at his best and most bizarre

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    The Key & Diary of a Mad Old Man

    Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

    These two modern classics by the great Japanese novelist Junichiro Tanizaki, both utilize the diary form to explore the authority that love and sex have over all.

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    Quicksand

    Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

    Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady, unfortunately widowed young. This work presents a tale of infatuation and deceit, of eliberate evil. Its theme is humiliation, its victim Sonoko’s mild-mannered…

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    The Makioka Sisters: Introduction by Edward G. Seidensticker

    Junichiro Tanizaki

    Four sisters of a respected Japanese family find different ways to cope with the harsh realities of life in postwar Japan.

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    Some Prefer Nettles

    Junichiro Tanizaki

    The marriage of Kaname and Misako is disintegrating: whilst seeking passion and fulfilment in the arms of others, they contemplate the humiliation of divorce.

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