Tanizaki

[ tah-nee-zah-kee ]

noun

1. Ju·ni·chi·ro [joo, -nee-, chee, -, r, aw], 1886–1965, Japanese novelist.

Example Sentences

Oe once declared that Japan was, morally, a third-world country, and called his style a rebellion against "the sacred territory" of other Japanese writers, such as Junichi Tanizaki, Yasunari Kawabata and Yukio Mishima, "who reflect beauty and power of which Tokyo is the centre".

From BBC

She has won numerous literary prizes in Japan and the United States, including the Akutagawa Prize for “A Snake Stepped On” and the Tanizaki Prize for “Strange Weather in Tokyo.”

From New York Times

This exhibition, “In Praise of Shadows,” borrows its title from a book on Japanese aesthetics by Junichiro Tanizaki.

From Los Angeles Times

But Tanizaki’s mood is elegiac.

From New York Times

So Tanizaki is involved in them all.

From New York Times