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Description edit
An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descriptions of laquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure.
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First Sentence edit
What incredible pains the fancier of traditional architecture must take when he sets out to build a house in pure Japanese style, striving somehow to make electric wires, gas pipes, and water lines harmonize with the austerity of Japanese rooms - even someone who has never built a house for himself must sense this when he visits a teahouse, a restaurant, or an inn.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Charles Moore (Foreword)
- Thomas J. Harper (Afterword)
- Thomas J. Harper (Translator)
- Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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