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色の白いは七難隠す   Whilst the emergence of mass marketed skin lightening products was an early 20th-century phenomenon, the Japanese desire for ble...

I. Sadly, I have to confess my slight disappointment with Tanizaki's novel Chijin no Ai , often translated into English as...

A Japanese Ghost Girl or Yūrei [幽靈] The Land of the Rising Sun is also the Land of the Falling Shadow; a place in which the g...

When not writing in praise of shadows and the superiority of the traditional Japanese toilet as a place of spiritual repose and poeti...

Junichirō Tanizaki (1886-1965) was one of the great figures of twentieth century Japanese literature. His work has two main obsessions...