Junichiro Tanizaki | ika.異化

May 11, 20242 min read

“The Makioka Sisters” by Junichiro Tanizaki

I finally finished reading the masterpiece by Tanizaki. This is literature with a capital ‘L’. I was living in the Kansai region in the...

Mar 26, 20242 min read

“The Siren’s Lament” by Junichiro Tanizaki

I used 3 stories of Tanizaki for my discussion classes in the Pushkin Press anthology: “The Qilin”; “Killing O-Tsuya”; and “The Siren’s...

Dec 21, 20222 min read

“The Story of Tomoda and Matsunaga” by Junichiro Tanizaki

This story was written in 1926, 3 years after Tanizaki moved to Kyoto. The narrator, a writer called “K”, one day receives a letter...