Tanizaki Jun’ichirō

Quotes

• “All these hundreds of years, from the days of the oldest poetry collections, there have been poems about cherry blossoms. The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems. How very ordinary the poems had seemed to Sachiko when she read them as a girl, but now she knew, as well as one could know, that grieving over fallen cherry blossoms was more than a fad or convention.”
• “Every worm to his taste;Some prefer to eat nettles.”
• “You are being very demanding indeed. Where, I wonder, will we find the woman to satisfy you? You really should have stayed single — all woman-worshippers should be single. They never find the woman who answers all the requirements.”
• “Children retain a great deal, and when they grow up they start going over things and rejudging them from a grownup’s point of view. This must have been this way, and that was that way, they say. That’s why you have to be careful with children — some day they grow up.”
• “The quality that we call beauty...must always grow from the realities of life, and our ancestors, forced to live in dark rooms, presently came to discover beauty in shadows, ultimately to guide shadows towards beauty's ends.”
• “Such is our way of thinking — we find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.”

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Key facts

Native name

谷崎 潤一郎

Born

( 1886-07-24 ) 24 July 1886, Nihonbashi , Tokyo , Empire of Japan

Died

30 July 1965 (1965-07-30) (aged 79), Yugawara , Kanagawa , Japan

Occupation

Writer

Genre

Fiction, drama, essays, silent film scenarios

Spouse

Chiyo Ishikawa ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1915 ⁠ – ⁠ 1930 ) ​ Sueko Furukawa ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1931 ⁠ – ⁠ 1934 ) ​ Matsuko Morita ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1935 ) ​

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