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Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Died in 1965

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki was born on 24 July 1886 in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, into a well-off merchant family whose fortune declined during his youth. Noticed as early as 1910, he left the Imperial University of Tokyo the following year. At first drawn to the West and to European decadence, he moved to the Kansai after the earthquake of 1923 and turned to traditional culture. From 1935 until the end of his life, he produced three versions in modern Japanese of the great court narrative of the eleventh century. Proposed several times for the Nobel Prize, he died in Yugawara on 30 July 1965.

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