Books / Reviews | The critics who shaped modern Japan Aug 5, 2017
Junichiro Tanizaki: Speaking to the light from the shadows
by Damian Flanagan
In 1933, when Junichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965) published his short but landmark essay "In Praise of Shadows," it could hardly be seen as anything other than a riposte to the "enlightening" agenda of the great cultural critic Fukuzawa Yukichi of the preceding Meiji Era (1868-1912). Fukuzawa ...
