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In Osaka in the years immediately before World War II, four aristocratic women try to preserve a way of life that is vanishing. As told by Junichiro Tanizaki, the story of the Makioka sisters forms what is arguably the greatest Japanese novel of the twentieth century, a poignant yet unsparing... read more

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"Would you do this please, Koi-san?"

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  1. Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (Author)

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  1. Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)

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Publication Date: 1957
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