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esmesstuff.bsky.social
I read a book. It was pervy
The Key. Junichiro Tanizaki, 1961.
The blurb compares it to Lady Chatterley's Lover, and I suppose being embarrassing and voyeuristic, & featuring a married couple who REALLY need a chat about needs & boundaries, it kinda is.
January 4, 2026 at 2:16 PM
tade-kuu-mushi.bsky.social
…yes!…
…I THINK Snow Country may have been my first Japanese novel, about 1980…either that or Mishima's Spring Snow, but I've lost my copy of that, so don't have my notes in it…
…after Snow Country, it was on to Thousand Cranes, Tanizaki & Mishima, Dazai & the rest…
January 3, 2026 at 10:58 PM
kunoichihime.bsky.social
Hello~ I'm (sort of) back again, I've been ignoring this platform far too long 😆 I'm lazy tbh but I'll try to post at least once a month to keep this account active. I have been reading A LOT of books in 2025, so just sharing my fave reads from last year 😁
A photo of various books stacked in two columns: from the upper left, Ascendance of a Bookworm vol 1 by Miya Kazuki, What You Are Looking For Is In The Library by Michiko Aoyama, The Miracles of the Namiya General Store by Keigo Higashino, The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, Almond by Won-pyung Sohn, The Housemaid by Freida McFadden, Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, and Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum; from upper right, The Boy and the Dog by Seishu Hase, The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami, Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura, Before We Forget Kindness by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki, None of This is True by Lisa Jewell, and Peerless by Wu Shuang. On top of the stack of books are two cute, chubby duckling bookends.
January 3, 2026 at 2:33 PM
grafficainfo.bsky.social
El elogio de la sombra | Junichirô Tanizaki

Editorial: Siruela Autor: Junichiro Tanizaki Idioma: Español Páginas: 96 Encuadernación: rústica con solapas Medidas: 10,5 x 15 cm Publicación / Edición: 48ª. 2025 ISBN: 9788478442584
El elogio de la sombra | Junichirô Tanizaki
Editorial: Siruela Autor: Junichiro Tanizaki Idioma: Español Páginas: 96 Encuadernación: rústica con solapas Medidas: 10,5 x 15 cm Publicación / Edición: 48ª. 2025 ISBN: 9788478442584
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January 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM
gergroot.bsky.social
Yasunari Kawabata: Sneeuwland libris.nl/a/yasunari-k... Junichiro Tanizaki: Stille sneeuwval www.standaardboekhandel.be/p/stille-sne...
Sneeuwland - Yasunari Kawabata | Libris
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January 2, 2026 at 9:14 AM
slowjamsforever.bsky.social
Unfortunately that gets unified with the Tanizaki rights fairly early - by a fun coincidence, starting from the first match for the name rights, the lineal rights end up back with T-Hawk for the second.
January 1, 2026 at 8:01 PM
stonefruits.bsky.social
2025 year in books. yay
FICTION Private Rites by Julia Armfield Conclave by Robert Harris Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel In Memoriam by Alice Winn Tian Guan Ci Fu, Vol. 1 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu Tian Guan Ci Fu, Vol. 2 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu Tian Guan Ci Fu, Vol. 3 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu Tian Guan Ci Fu, Vol. 4 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu Tian Guan Ci Fu, Vol. 5 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu Tian Guan Ci Fu, Vol. 6 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu Tian Guan Ci Fu, Vol. 7 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu Tian Guan Ci Fu, Vol. 8 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar The City in Glass by Nghi Vo Mutual Interest by Olivia Wolfgang Smith It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over by Anne de Marcken Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove The Secret History by Donna Tartt * The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki * Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson MANGA SPY X FAMILY, Vol. 12 by Tatsuya Endo SPY X FAMILY, Vol. 13 by Tatsuya Endo * denotes reread NONFICTION & MEMOIR Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition by Owen Beattie Lifeform by Jenny Slate A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole by Diana Preston Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless Language by Nicola Gardini Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World by Aja Raden Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green The Secret Life of a Cemetery: The Wild Nature and Enchanting Lore of Père-Lachaise by Benoît Gallot Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell POETRY Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Glück Thirst by Mary Oliver Dog Songs: Poems by Mary Oliver Space Struck by Paige Lewis The Undressing: Poems by Li-Young Lee The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius (tl. Vincent Katz)
January 1, 2026 at 7:00 PM
elehhache.bsky.social
Otro libro con un gran título que tampoco me gustó. No tengo sensibilidad para Tanizaki creo.
December 30, 2025 at 10:41 PM
jojoseames.bsky.social
• Michael Tisserand - Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White
• Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan (re-read)
• John Kennedy Toole - The Neon Bible
• Jun'ichirō Tanizaki - Devils in Daylight
December 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
palomar-qfwfq.bsky.social
All right, so of these I have read:
- Other Tennessee Williams but not these
- Full work of Rimbaud
- The Camus mentioned & more
- some Blake
- the Orwell & more
- the Nabokov & more
- a lot of James Baldwin essays
- the Salinger & more
- the Kafka & more
- other things by Tanizaki
… continued…
December 30, 2025 at 9:51 AM
jpmedina.bsky.social
La obra es grande gracias a todas sus lecturas y contextos, tanto los que esconde como los que pueden apreciarse a simple vista. Recuerda a Tanizaki, a Ozu, incluso a Faulkner. Recuerda al kanso o al mono no aware.
December 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
marywyrd.bsky.social
Plan 15.

Read more Japanese fiction.
Translated into English because I can’t read or speak Japanese. Yet.

I’ve enjoyed these and welcome book reading recommendations!

💙📚
Blue book - Hardboiled. Hard Luck. Banana Yoshimoto. An illustration in the bottom right corner of a woman in white sitting on a green bed. Light blue book. Convenience Store Woman. Sayaka Murata. International best seller. Photograph of a plastic fish full of sauce. Grey book. Japanese tales of mystery and imagination. Edogawa Rampo. Translated by James B. Harris with a new foreword by Patricia Welch. Illustration of a bird in a tree against a red circle. Purple book. The Makioka Sisters. Junichirō Tanizaki. Photograph of three young Japanese people in traditional attire.
December 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
hardmangapanels.bsky.social
Panel MCIV

Gonron Egg. Art by Shuhei Tanizaki
A manga panel.
December 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
brianbergstrom.bsky.social
"Jupiter" is the second story in the same collection "Pink" appears in, 焔 (The Flame), which won the Tanizaki Prize in its year. I'm still looking for a publisher for the whole mind-blowing thing!
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If you like "Jupiter"—or you're especially looking forward to it—you can enjoy "Pink" (also by Tomoyuki Hoshino and also translated by Brian Bergstrom) totally for free!
December 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
nnavigator.mstdn.forfun.su.ap.brid.gy
"Diary of a Mad Old Man" is a novel by Japanese author Junichiro Tanizaki, first published in 1948. The story follows an elderly man's introspective journey as he grapples with old age, societal expectations, and his own sanity. It offers a profound […]

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Prompt: Book: Diary of a Mad Old Man by Junichiro Tanizaki, Mikhail Nesterov style, novel, Japanese author, Junichiro Tanizaki, Diary of a Mad Old Man, introspective journey, elderly man, societal expectations, sanity, human consciousness, complexity, identity. HD, sharp focus, stunningly beautiful, abstract style, non-representational, colors and shapes, expression of feelings, imaginative, highly detailed Negative prompt: verybadimagenegative, bad_prompt_version2-neg, easynegative, FastNegativeV2, realistic, photographic, figurative, concrete, extra eyes, bad eyes, ugly eyes, imperfect eyes, deformed pupils, deformed iris, cross-eyed, poorly drawn face, bad face, fused face, ugly face, worst face, unrealistic skin texture, out of frame, poorly drawn hands, cloned face, double face, blurry, bad quality Text model: aya-expanse Image model: TurboVisionXL
December 26, 2025 at 8:16 AM
thenakedreader.bsky.social
I got these for Jólabókaflóðið last night and for Christmas this morning. The in-laws know me so well lol (although I have already read the Tanizaki, but I’m always happy to have different editions).

I think I know what I’ll do for the rest of the day! 🤓
I’m standing naked in a dark bedroom. The light from the window is lighting up my body. I’m holding a stack of books in one hand.
December 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
shindekure.ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.ooo
In my festive procrastination I forgot it was #WiPWednesday, so please indulge me in some literary humour probably no-one will get... but it would make my year if anyone did!
Text reads: '"Speaking of books, I got you something," Levi said, reaching down for the package he'd been holding surreptitiously when they entered. He held it in both hands as he passed it to her over the table. 'Nifa unwrapped it carefully. She smiled as she pulled it out of the black paper: a hardbound copy of Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki. '"Levi, this is really thoughtful of you," she said, looking at the front and then the back cover. "Do you have any idea what this book is about?" '"To be honest, it caught my eye because the girl on the cover's hair is like yours," he admitted, a little awkwardly. "But when I read the blurb I thought it might be relevant." '"Oh, it's definitely relevant," she said with a smirk. "Extremely so. Just… perhaps not in quite the way you thought." 'Levi cocked his head quizzically at her and frowned. '"Don't look at me like that," she said with a slight chuckle. "I'm really happy you bought me this. You ever read philosophy at all?" '"A little," Levi shrugged. "Depends how verbose and up its own ass it is." '"Then I think you should read In Praise of Shadows by the same author," she said, lifting her copy of Naomi a final time before laying it down on the seat beside her. "It's an essay about aesthetics; it's not too long. I think you'd appreciate it — it's very you."'
December 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
kwesiblak.bsky.social
“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.”
― Jun’ichirō Tanizaki #kwesiblack #photog #sonya7iii
December 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
greaterhermit.bsky.social
I read this essay on the beach and my first reaction is that I think Tanizaki is crazy. My second reaction is that I like that about him.
December 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
novomondo.bsky.social
Tanizaki:
a statue of a man with a beard and ears
ALT: a statue of a man with a beard and ears
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December 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
greaterhermit.bsky.social
Tanizaki would cry
December 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
androidacademia.bsky.social
Tanizaki would be proud, I'm sure!
December 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
satoriediciones.bsky.social
Satori 2025...

HISTORIA DE LA MUJER CONVERTIDA EN MONO
En esta obra maestra, Tanizaki se acercó con paso firme a la narrativa de terror. Una nueva ocasión en que la literatura japonesa brilla en sus formas más breves.

#tanizaki #literaturajaponesa
December 21, 2025 at 7:30 AM
einfrumungur.bsky.social
“From candle to oil lamp, oil lamp to gaslight, gaslight to electric light—his quest for a brighter light never ceases, he spares no pains to eradicate even the minutest shadow.”

― Junichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows
December 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
kingcalamitous.bsky.social
If Game awards didn't have a tainted heart then Nightreign would have been nominated for best OST.

Shoi Miyazawa
Tai Tomisawa
Soma Tanizaki
Yoshikazu Takayama
Yuka Kitamura (and more)

Obliterated the orchestral halls, the OST is brilliant even if you care little for the games.
December 19, 2025 at 4:15 AM