“When I lived on the Bluff in Yokohama I spend a good deal of my leisure in the company of foreign residents, at their banquets and balls. At close range I was not particularly struck by their whiteness, but from… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides. — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
“Whenever I see the alcove of a tastefully built Japanese room, I marvel at our comprehension of the secrets of shadows, our sensitive use… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
Whenever I sit with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the distant song of an insect, lost… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
For a woman who lived in the dark it was enough if she had a faint, white face -a full body was unnecessary. — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
There are those who say that when civilization progresses a bit further transportation facilities will move into the skies and under the ground, and… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
“It is hard for one who has not had a similar experience to imagine the terror that still gripped Taeko and Mrs. Tamaki and… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
Yet for better or worse we love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
