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By: Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
“This eloquent, though sometimes perverse, essay on the Japanese sense of beauty by one of the most articulate of modern Japanese novelists is something everyone interested in Japan should read. I shall certainly recommend it strongly to all my students. The publishers of this book have given us a little ge.” —Edward McClellan Yale University
“I read the piece with absolute delight. Tanizaki captures in an amusing, flowing commentary on architecture, drama, food, femenine beauty, and many other aspects of Japanese life the uneasy mixing of two clashing aesthetic traditions based on differing technologies. He makes clear his own love of the softer, quieter, more shadowy. older aesthetic tradition and his pain as it is challenged by the brighter, more garish products of Western technology.” —Edwin O. Reischauer Harvard University
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