Quotes by : Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

We Orientals tend to seek our satisfactions in whatever surroundings we happen to find ourselves, to....

In the mansion called literature I would have the eaves deep and the walls dark, I would push back into....

We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that....

When I lived on the Bluff in Yokohama I spend a good deal of my leisure in the company of foreign residents,....