Who is Junichiro Tanizaki?
Junichiro Tanizaki is a Japanese novelist who lived from 1886 to 1965. He is one of Japan’s most famous authors, and his work is widely read all over the world. Junichiro Tanizaki is well known for his experimental writing style paired with very traditionally formatted Japanese narrative. His work is characterized by very strange and often tormented characters who struggle with the clash between Westernization and traditional Japanese values, much like Junichiro Tanizaki himself. Many of his novels are also frankly erotic, although the eroticism tends to take a nontraditional and sometimes non-consensual form. Several of Tanizaki’s books were later adapted into films as well. Junichiro Tanizaki was born into a wealthy merchant family in Tokyo, and in his early years, he was fascinated by Westernization and modernism, living for some time in a Western style house in Yokohama, a very bohemian section of Tokyo, with his wife and child. Junichiro Tanizaki also briefly attended Tokyo Univer
