TANIZAKI IN WESTERN LANGUAGES: A Bibliography of Translations and Studies, by Adriana Boscaro, with a list of films based on Tanizaki's works compiled by Maria Roberta Novielli. Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 2000, 82 pp., $19.95.

This fine bibliography is one of the many results of the First International Symposium on Junichiro Tanazaki that was held by the Japanese Studies Institute in Venice in the spring of 1995, a joint celebration of the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Institute and a commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the writer's death.

For the first time, scholars in the field of Tanizaki studies from Europe, North America and Japan gathered for a symposium, and Adriana Boscaro, one of the leading Tanizaki scholars, compiled the first general bibliography devoted to the writer.

Five years later it has been rechecked, newly referenced and updated as result of "pestering people around the world for references and materials." Thus, we now have the first complete bibliography devoted to Tanizaki.