Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Novelist, Author

1886 – 1965

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Who was Jun'ichirō Tanizaki?

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki 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.

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Born
Jul 24, 1886
Nihonbashi
Also known as
  • Junichiro Tanizaki
  • Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
  • Junʼichirō Tanizaki
  • Junʼichirō Tanizaki
Siblings
Spouses
Children
Nationality
  • Japan
Profession
Education
  • University of Tokyo
Lived in
  • Tokyo
Died
Jul 30, 1965
Yugawara

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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