
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
- Chiyo Ishikawa
(1915 - 1930) - Tomiko Furukawa
(1931 - 1934) - Matsuko Morita
(1935 - 1965/07/30)
- Chiyo Ishikawa
- 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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