Junichiro Tanizaki
Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Born (1886-07-24)24 July 1886 Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan Died 30 July 1965(1965-07-30) (aged 79) Yugawara, Kanagawa, Japan Occupation Writer Genre fiction, drama, essays, silent film scenarios Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎, Tanizaki Jun'ichirō?, 24 July 1886 – 30 July 1965) 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.