Junichiro Tanizaki

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books
  • First Book:
    October 1983
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi and Arrowroot: Two Novellas

  • Naomi

    Junichiro Tanizaki’s Naomi is both a hilarious story of one man’s obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation’s cultural confusion.
     
    When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage waitress Naomi, he is instantly ...

  • Diary of a Mad Old Man

    Diary of a Mad Old Man is the journal of Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke. He discovers that, while his body is decaying, his libido still rages on -- unwittingly sparked by the gentle, kindly att...

  • The Key

    Scintillating, elegant, darkly comic, The Key is the story of a dying marriage, told in the form of parallel diaries. After nearly thirty years of marriage, a dried-up, middle-aged professor frenziedly strives for new heights of carnal pleasure with ...

  • The Makioka Sisters

    Junichirō Tanizaki’s magisterial evocation of a proud Osaka family in decline during the years immediately before World War II is arguably the greatest Japanese novel of the twentieth century and a classic of international literature.
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  • Quicksand

    Quicksand is a silkily nuanced novel of erotic gamesmanship and obsession. Sonoko Kakiuchi, an Osaka lady of a good family, married to a dully respected lawyer, tells a story of temptation and betrayal. Sonoko is infatuated with the beautiful art stu...

  • The Reed Cutter And Captain Shigemoto's Mother

    With a precision and brilliance unmatched perhaps by any other novelist of the twentieth century, Junichiro Tanizaki interweaves a sense of his country's deep past with the kind of pathologies and obsessions we are likely to think of as modern. Here,...

  • Some Prefer Nettles

    Junichiro Tanizaki’s Some Prefer Nettles is an exquisitely nuanced exploration of the allure of ancient Japanese tradition -- and the profound disquiet that accompanied its passing.
     
    It is the 1920s in Tokyo, and Kaname and his wife Misak...

  • Seven Japanese Tales

    Junichiro Tanizaki’s Seven Japanese Tales collects stories that explore the boundary at which love becomes self-annihilation, where the contemplation of beauty gives way to fetishism, and where tradition becomes an instrument of voluptuous cruelty....



  • The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi

    These two short novels, published in the early 1930's ranked high in Tanizaki's own estimation of his work. The contrast is stark, but in their controlled complexities of tone, both bear the unmistakable stamp of Tanizaki's hand. The Secret History o...

  • In Praise of Shadows

    An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descriptions of laquerware under candlelight an...

  • A Cat, a Man, and Two Women

    A novella and two short stories reveal Tanizaki at his best and most bizarre

    The three pieces in this collection―the novella “A Cat, A Man, and Two Women” and two shorter pieces “The Little Kingdom” and “Professor Rado”―are lig...

  • Red Roofs and Other Stories

    Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886"1965), the author of Naomi; A Cat, a Man, and Two Women; and The Makioka Sisters, was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The four stories in this volume date from the first and second decades of Tanizaki’...

  • The Gourmet Club

    The decadent tales in this collection span 45 years in the extraordinary career of Japan’s master storyteller, Tanizaki Jun’ichiro¯ (1886"1965), the author of Naomi, A Cat, a Man, and Two Women, and The Makioka Sisters. Made accessible in Engl...

  • Devils in Daylight

    A suspenseful early novella about obsession, voyeurism, and Tokyo’s seedy criminal underworld

    One morning, Takahashi, a writer who has just stayed up all night working, is interrupted by a phone call from his old friend Sonomura: barely ab...

  • The Maids

    A major discovery: Tanizaki’s wonderful final novel―now available as a paperback

    The Maids, Tanizaki's final novel, sparkles like a jewel. Over the years―before, during, and after WWII―many women work in the pampered, elegant househo...

  • In Black and White

    Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's In Black and White is a literary murder mystery in which the lines between fiction and reality are blurred. The writer Mizuno has penned a story about the perfect murder. His fictional victim is modeled on an acquaintance, a fe...

  • Longing and Other Stories

  • Gold & Silver

    This volume includes four short stories and three novellas by the acclaimed Japanese novelist Jun'ichiro Tanizaki. These early works were published in the Jun'ichiro Tanizaki edition of Japanese Detective Novels (Nihon Tantei Shosetsu Zenshu)....



  • The Siren's Lament

    Lavishly opulent stories of sensual obsession, cultural heritage, and mythological creatures—translated into English for the first time—from a classic Japanese writerFeaturing “The Qilin,” “The Siren’s Lament,&rdqu...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Junichiro Tanizaki has published 20 books.

Junichiro Tanizaki does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Siren's Lament, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Junichiro Tanizaki, The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi and Arrowroot: Two Novellas, was published in October 1983.

No. Junichiro Tanizaki does not write books in series.
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