[DeepL Translation - needs review] Author: Junichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965) Bottom line: In-ei reisan, Chuko bunko, Chuokoron-sha
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This is a book collecting six of Tanizaki's non-fiction essays, starting off with the famous title essay 陰翳礼讃, which has been translated into English as "In Praise of Shadows".
Tanizaki's prose style is pretty difficult for a language learner, both in his vocabulary choices and in orthographical choices like use of kanji for "grammar" words that are more usually written in kana in more modern texts. However I felt it was rich enough to reward taking it at a slow pace, re-reading tricky sentenc