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Books by Junichiro Tanizaki
  | | The Key & Diary of a Mad Old Man(Reprint) by Junichiro Tanizaki, Howard Hibbett Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2004 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-7900-1, ISBN: 1-4000-7900-4 "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. In The Key, a middle-aged professor plies his wife of thirty years with any number of stimulants, from brandy to a handsome young lover, in order to reach new heights of pleasure. Their alternating diaries record their separate adventures, but whether for themselvess or each o ..." |
 | | Naomi(Reprint) by Junichiro Tanizaki, Anthony H. Chambers Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2001 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-375-72474-9, ISBN: 0-375-72474-5 "Na-o-mi. The three syllables of this name, unusual in 1920s Japan, captivate a 28-year-old engineer, who soon becomes infatuated with the girl so named, a teenaged café waitress. Drawn to her Eurasian features and innocent demeanor, Joji is eager to whisk young Naomi away from the seamy underbelly of postâWorld War I Tokyo and to mold her into his ideal wife. But when the two come together to indulge their shared passion for Western ..." |
 | | Some Prefer Nettles(1st Edition) by Junichiro Tanizaki, Edward G. Seidensticker Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1995 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-75269-1, ISBN: 0-679-75269-2 "Junichiro Tanizaki s "Some Prefer Nettles" is an exquisitely nuanced exploration of the allure of ancient Japanese tradition and the profound disquiet that accompanied its passing. It is the 1920s in Tokyo, and Kaname and his wife Misako are trapped in a parody of a progressive Western marriage. No longer attracted to one another, they have long since stopped sleeping together and Kaname has sanctioned his wife s liaisons with another ..." |
 | | Quicksand(1st Edition) by Junichiro Tanizaki Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1995 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-76022-1, ISBN: 0-679-76022-9 "Quicksand is a silkily nuanced novel of erotic gamesmanship and obsession. Sonoko Kakiuchi, an Osaka lady of a good family, married to a dully respected lawyer, tells a story of temptation and betrayal. Sonoko is infatuated with the beautiful art student and femme fatale Mitsuko, a woman so seductive and heartless she can even turn Sonoko's husband into her own accomplice. Filled with intrigue and treacherous romance, readers will be en ..." |
 | | Seven Japanese Tales(Reprint) by Junichiro Tanizaki, Howard Hibbett Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1996 by Vintage International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-679-76107-5, ISBN: 0-679-76107-1 "Junichiro Tanizaki's "Seven Japanese Tales" collects stories that explore the boundary at which love becomes self-annihilation, where the contemplation of beauty gives way to fetishism, and where tradition becomes an instrument of voluptuous cruelty. A beautiful blind musician exacts the ultimate sacrifice from the man who is both her disciple and her lover. A tattooist turns the body of an exquisite young girl into a reflection of her ..." |
 | | The Makioka Sisters(Reprint) by Junichiro Tanizaki, Edward G. Seidensticker, Vintage International Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 1995 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-76164-8, ISBN: 0-679-76164-0 "The four Makioka sisters lead very complicated, strenuous lives, although on the surface nothing much ever happens to them. Part of a fading Japanese aristocracy in the years leading up to World War II, they cannot escape the wide net of the family name--something always brings them back to the reality of "being a Makioka." Running out of money, living in falling-apart houses, growing older beneath the sunlight of the modern world ..." |
 | | Devils in Daylight(Reprint) by Junichiro Tanizaki, J. Keith Vincent Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2019 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2875-6, ISBN: 0-8112-2875-4 "Now in paperback, a suspenseful early novella from “the outstanding Japanese novelist of this century” (Edmund White). One morning, Takahashi, a writer who has just stayed up all night working, is interrupted by a phone call from his old friend Sonomura: barely able to contain his excitement, Sonomura claims that he has cracked a secret cryptographic code based on Edgar Allan Poe’s The Gold-Bug and now knows exactly when and where a mur ..." |
 | | The Maids(Reprint) by Junichiro Tanizaki, Michael P. Cronin Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2019 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2874-9, ISBN: 0-8112-2874-6 "A major discovery: Tanizaki’s wonderful final novel―now available as a paperbackThe Maids, Tanizaki's final novel, sparkles like a jewel. Over the years―before, during, and after WWII―many women work in the pampered, elegant household of the famous author Chikura Raikichi, his wife, and her younger sister. Though the family's quite well-to-do, the house is small; the proximity of the maids helps perhaps to explain Raikichi's extremely c ..." |
 | | In Praise of Shadows(Updated) by Junichiro Tanizaki Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2006 by Vintage Books International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-09-928357-7, ISBN: 0-09-928357-3 "Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub: 09 2006 Pages: 80 Publisher: Vintage Books This is an essay on aesthetics by one of the Greatest Japanese novelists The text ranges over architecture. Jade food. Toilets and COMBINES an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. as well as perfect descriptions of lacquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure. The essay forms a classic description of the collision bet ..." |
 | | Some Prefer Nettles(1st Edition) by Junichiro Tanizaki Paperback, 202 Pages, Published 1981 by Perigee Trade ISBN-13: 978-0-399-50521-8, ISBN: 0-399-50521-0 "Junichiro Tanizaki’s Some Prefer Nettles is an exquisitely nuanced exploration of the allure of ancient Japanese tradition—and the profound disquiet that accompanied its passing. It is the 1920s in Tokyo, and Kaname and his wife Misako are trapped in a parody of a progressive Western marriage. No longer attracted to one another, they have long since stopped sleeping together and Kaname has sanctioned his wife’s liaisons with another m ..." |
 | | The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi and Arrowroot(Reprint) Two Novels by Junichiro Tanizaki, Anthony Hood Chambers Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2003 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-375-71931-8, ISBN: 0-375-71931-8 "From a Japanese master of romantic and sexual obsession come two novels that treat traditional themes with sly wit and startling psychological sophistication. In The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi, Junichir Tanizaki reimagines the exploits of a legendary samurai as a sadomasochistic dance between the hero and the wife of his enemy. Arrowroot, though set in the twentieth century, views an adult orphanâs search for his motherâ ..." |
 | | The Reed Cutter and Captain Shigemoto's Mother(1st Edition) Two Novellas by Junichiro Tanizaki, Anthony H. Chambers, Junichirã Â Tanizaki Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1995 by Vintage International ISBN-13: 978-0-679-75791-7, ISBN: 0-679-75791-0 "With a precision and brilliance unmatched perhaps by any other novelist of the twentieth century, Junichiro Tanizaki interweaves a sense of his country's deep past with the kind of pathologies and obsessions we are likely to think of as modern. Here, in two eerie and beautiful novellas, he displays this skill at its most elegant and affecting. The Reed Cutter has a contemporary setting, though it might have taken place any time in the ..." |
 | | In Praise Of Shadows(1st Edition) by Junichiro Tanizaki Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2019 by Vintage Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-78487-557-2, ISBN: 1-78487-557-0 "A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki's wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture.‘We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates… Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.’The slim book you are holding is in fact a portal. Opening it, you will be led by Junichiro Tanizaki’s light touch into a mysterio ..." |
 | | Devils in Daylight(1st Edition) by Junichiro Tanizaki, J. Keith Vincent Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2017 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2491-8, ISBN: 0-8112-2491-0 "A suspenseful early novella about obsession, voyeurism, and Tokyo’s seedy criminal underworldOne morning, Takahashi, a writer who has just stayed up all night working, is interrupted by a phone call from his old friend Sonomura: barely able to contain his excitement, Sonomura claims that he has cracked a secret cryptographic code based on Edgar Allan Poe’s The Gold-Bug and now knows exactly when and where a murder will take place―and th ..." |
 | | The Maids(1st Edition) by Junichiro Tanizaki, Michael P. Cronin Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2017 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2492-5, ISBN: 0-8112-2492-9 "A major discovery: Tanizaki’s wonderful final novel―now in EnglishThe Maids is a jewel: an astonishing complement to The Makioka Sisters, set in the same house, in the same turbulent decades, but among the servants as much as the masters. The Maids concerns all the young women who work―before, during, and after WWII―in the pampered, elegant household of the famous author Chikura Raikichi, his wife Sanko, and her younger sister. Though q ..." |
 | | A Cat, A Man, and Two Women(Reprint) (New Directions Paperbook) by Junichiro Tanizaki, Paul Mccarthy Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 2015 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2449-9, ISBN: 0-8112-2449-X "A novella and two short stories reveal Tanizaki at his best and most bizarre The three pieces in this collection―the novella “A Cat, A Man, and Two Women” and two shorter pieces “The Little Kingdom” and “Professor Rado”―are lighthearted and entertaining variations on one of Tanizaki’s favorite preoccupations: dominance and submission in relationships, complicated even further here by customs, public opinion, and comic grotesqueries. I ..." |
 | | The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi by Junichiro Tanizaki Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2001 by Vintage Uk ISBN-13: 978-0-09-928317-1, ISBN: 0-09-928317-4 "These two short novels, published in the early 1930's ranked high in Tanizaki's own estimation of his work. The contrast is stark, but in their controlled complexities of tone, both bear the unmistakable stamp of Tanizaki's hand. The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi deals with the dark sexual obsessions of a sixteenth-century warlord, accidentally initiated in his youth into the morbid rites attendant upon battle. Based on invented ..." |
 | | Two Novels The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi and Arrowroot by Junichiro Tanizaki, Anthony H. Chambers Paperback, 199 Pages, Published 1991 by North Point Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-86547-470-3, ISBN: 0-86547-470-2 "From a Japanese master of romantic and sexual obsession come two novels that treat traditional themes with sly wit and startling psychological sophistication. In The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi, Junichir Tanizaki reimagines the exploits of a legendary samurai as a sadomasochistic dance between the hero and the wife of his enemy. Arrowroot, though set in the twentieth century, views an adult orphan’s search for his mother’s p ..." |
 | | The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki Paperback, Published 1973 by Grosset Dunlap ISBN-13: 978-0-448-00190-6, ISBN: 0-448-00190-X "The four Makioka sisters lead very complicated, strenuous lives, although on the surface nothing much ever happens to them. Part of a fading Japanese aristocracy in the years leading up to World War II, they cannot escape the wide net of the family name--something always brings them back to the reality of "being a Makioka." Running out of money, living in falling-apart houses, growing older beneath the sunlight of the modern world, they ..." |
 | | Diary of a Mad Old Man(1st Edition) by Junichiro Tanizaki Paperback, Published 1971 by Penguin Putnam~Mass ISBN-13: 978-0-425-01974-0, ISBN: 0-425-01974-8 "Diary of a Mad Old Man is the journal of Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke. He discovers that, while his body is decaying, his libido still rages on -- unwittingly sparked by the gentle, kindly attentions of his daughter-in-law Satsuko, a chic, flashy dancer with a shady past. Pitiful and ridiculous as he is, Utsugi is without a trace of self-pity, and his diary shines with self-effac ..." |
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