卍 (Manji) 1931

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“先生、わたし今日はすっかり聞いてもらうつもりで伺いましたのんですけど、折角せっかくお仕事中のとこかまいませんですやろか？　それはそれは詳しいに申し上げますと実に長いのんで、ほんまにわたし、せめてもう少し自由に筆動きましたら、自分でこの事何から何まで書き留めて、小説のような風にまとめて、先生に見てもらおうか思おもたりしましたのんですが、……実はこないだ中ひょっと書き出して見ましたのんですが、何しろ事件があんまりこんがらがってて、どういう風に何処どこから筆着けてええやら、とてもわたしなんぞには見当つけしません。”

> Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎, Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, 24 July 1886 – 30 July 1965) was a Japanese author who is considered to be one of the most prominent figures in modern Japanese literature. The tone and subject matter of his work ranges from shocking depictions of sexuality and destructive erotic obsessions to subtle portrayals of the dynamics of family life within the context of the rapid changes in 20th-century Japanese society. Frequently, his stories are narrated in the context of a search for cultural identity in which constructions of the West and Japanese tradition are juxtaposed. >He was one of six authors on the final shortlist for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964, the year b