Product Information
This is an essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. The text ranges over architecture, jade, food, toilets, and combines an acute sense of the use of space in buildings, as well as perfect descriptions of lacquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure. The essay forms a classic description of the collision between the shadows of traditional Japanese interiors and the dazzling light of the modern age.Product Identifiers
PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139780099283577
eBay Product ID (ePID)91990984
Product Key Features
Publication Year2001
TopicPopular Philosophy, Literary Theory
Book TitleIn Praise of Shadows
Number of Pages80 Pages
LanguageEnglish
AuthorJunichiro Tanizaki
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Weight64 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorJunichiro Tanizaki