About this title: This is an essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. The text ranges over architecture, jade, food, toilets, and combines an acute sense of the use of space in buildings, as well as perfect descriptions of lacquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure. The essay forms a classic description of ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Leete'S Island Books
Date Published: 1977-12-01
ISBN-13:9780918172020ISBN:0918172020
Description: Great Condition. Softcover, Great Condition, clean/unmarked textblock, tight binding, some edge/cover wear, from a private collection. read more
Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: VINTAGE Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780099283577ISBN:0099283573
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 80 pages. (80 pages) presents an essay on aesthetics by one of the japanese novelists. this text ranges over architecture, jade, food, toilets, and combines a sense of the use of space in buildings, as well as descriptions of lacquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure. edition new ed (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780099283577ISBN:0099283573
Description: New. Presents an essay on aesthetics by one of the Japanese novelists. This text ranges over architecture, jade, food, toilets, and combines a sense of the use of space in buildings, as well as descriptions of lacquerware under candlelight and women in the... read more
"short and beautifully written (if) idiosyncratic essay on the place of darkness, shadow, decay and the unknown in japanese aesthetics. nothing you don't know, but said oh so well.
"Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary Japanese culture. Tanizaki's elegiac and deeply weird musings on electric lights, toilets, blackened teeth and more are elegantly and economically written."
"An interesting read--written in 1933, it's a defense of Japanese aesthetics in the face of encroaching Western values. It's thought-provoking to consider a different viewpoint, although his thoughts are going to be jarring in places (his assertion that women "should only exist from the collar up and the sleeves out, the rest forever in shadow" is...different)."
"A very inspiring, amusing and instructive short book, written in Tanizaki's autumn years. I learned a tremendous amount about Japanese aesthetics, architecture and decor from these pages."
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