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...Rachael Hutchinson Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Jun'ichirō on Cinema and “Oriental” Aesthetics . By Thomas Lamarre . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies , 2005 . xiv , 408 pp. $30.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007...

...Dennis Washburn A Tanizaki Feast: The International Symposium in Venice . Edited by Adriana Boscaro and Anthony Hood Chambers . Ann Arbor : Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan , 1998 . xi, 191 pp. $42.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Kinya Tsuruta The Moon in the Water: Understanding Tanizaki, Kawabata, and Mishima . By Gwen Boardman Petersen . Honolulu : The University Press of Hawaii , 1979 . xi , 366 pp. Bibliography, Index. $14.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit The Secret Window: Ideal Worlds in Tanizaki's Fiction . By Anthony Hood Chambers . Cambridge, Mass. and London : Harvard University Press , 1994 . x, 213 pp. $32.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 1094 THE JOURNAL...

...Takao Hagiwara Visions of Desire: Tanizaki's Fictional Worlds . By Ken k. Ito . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1991 . viii , 305 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 673 One of the few seeming successes of Japan's cultural...

...Chieko Irie Mulhern Naomi . By Junichirō Tanizaki . Translated by Anthony H. Chambers . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1985 . x, 237 pp. Introduction. $15.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 863 in consumer preferences, with the goal...

...Ken K. Ito Childhood Years: A Memoir . By Junichiro Tanizaki . Translated by Paul McCarthy . New York : Harper & Row , 1988 , xiii, 182 pp. $17.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 181 urban environment in which the artist...

... to come to terms with Japan's past as well as future foreign policy. ROBERT M. ORR, J R . Temple University, Japan Visions of Desire: Tanizaki's Fictional Worlds. By K E N K. I T O . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991. viii, 305 pp. Ito's Visions of Desire is an intriguing exploration of various...

....” But on the whole, they were writers of less significance who never made a success of transplanting new Western literary fashions. 8 No doubt Tanizaki felt more at ease in the Edo or the exotic (like Kirin) than, in contemporary settings in developing his Wildean ideas. 9 “Tanizaki Jun'ichiro...

...Charles E. Hamilton Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 The Makioka Sisters . By Junichiro Tanizaki . Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1957 . vii, 530 . $4.95. BOOK REVIEWS 629 date, or otherwise...

...Louis G. Perez Japan Today . Third edition. By Roger Buckley . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1999 . xiv, 218 pp. $49.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 737 Instead, there is a broad tendency to view Tanizaki on aesthetic...

... critics and film workers joined by famous novelist Tanizaki Jun'ichiro and dedicated to the "modernization" of Japanese cinema, may have failed to produce successful films but, nonetheless, caused lasting changes in the understanding and practice of cinema in Japan. Specifically, it accelerated...

... benefit the Japanese consumer but might also provide the key to inducing the innovations on which the future of the Japanese beef industry ultimately depends. PENELOPE FRANCKS University of Leeds Naomi. By JUNICHIRO TANIZAKI. Translated by ANTHONY H. CHAMBERS. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. x, 237 pp...

...Yoshiko Yokochi Samuel A Cat, a Man, and Two Women . By Jun'ichiro Tanizaki . Translated by Paul McCarthy . Tokyo and New York : Kodansha International , 1990 . xiv, 164 pp. $18.95. Citadel in Spring . By Hiroyuki Agawa . Translated by Lawrence Rogers . Tokyo and New York...

... writes: "The Meiji government became seriously interested in controlling the content of literature only when the literature itself had become a serious art form after some four decades of experimentation" (p. 14). Second, the writers he focuses on Soseki, Ogai, Kafu, and Tanizaki Junichiro are major...

..., personal, group; and the influence of this kind of fiction spreads far beyond the work of such labeled 140 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES I-novelists as Tayama Katai and Shimazaki Toson. The deliberately antiquarian aestheticism of Tanizaki Jun'ichiro and, in a different sense, of Kawabata Yasunari and Mishima...

...- explanation of Tanizaki's divorce of realism from tisement for the British edition, announced for process and his exploitation of repetitive form: April 1958, indicates the extent to which it can "The Japanese believe in Westernization, indus- be misrepresented: "A long, leisurely, beautifully trialization...

... . Okakura Kakuzo . 1964 . The Book of Tea . New York : Dover Publications . Okakura Kakuzo. 1970 . The Ideals of the East . Tokyo : Tuttle . Saeki ShÖIchi . 1993 . Monogatarigeijutsu ron: Tanizaki, Akutagawa, Mishima . Tokyo : Chuko bunko . SatÖ Haruo . 1975 . Bungei...

.... When only a few authors like Tanizaki Jun'ichiro are finan- cially independent, the thoughtful full-length novel dealing with major social problems cannot be written. Short-stories are also the rule because the public apparently likes to read the writings of many authors. Each of the magazines prints...

..., where the freedom of the zuihitsu genre sometimes becomes an excuse to ramble. Yet Tanizaki's reminiscences are imbued with the self-irony that enlivens the comedy in his fiction, and he often succeeds in evoking the textures of childhood experience to striking effect. The translation conveys...