ARGONAUT BOOKS

An elegant essay on traditional Japanese aesthetics by the great novelist. A delight to readIndependent on SundayA highly infectious essay lauding all things shady and subtly hiddenGuardianThe outstanding Japanese novelist of this centuryThis is a powerfully anti-modernist book, yet contains the most beautiful evocation of the traditional Japanese aesthetic... More like a poem than an essayBuilding DesignI am convinced that Tanizaki is one of the few great writers of our time. He is an author of outstanding stature and deserves to be far better known outside Japan than he isThat it is a work o...Read More