The Key - Softcover

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Junichiro Tanizaki was born in 1886 in Tokyo, where his family owned a printing establishment. He studied Japanese literature at Tokyo Imperial University, and his first published work, a one-act play, appeared in 1910 in a literary magazine he helped to found. All his most important works were written after 1923, among them Naomi, Some Prefer Nettles, Arrowroot, Ashikari, A Portrait of Shunkin, The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi, The Makioka Sisters, Captain Shigemoto's Mother, The Key and Diary of a Mad Old Man. He was awarded an Imperial Award for Cultural Merit in 1949. In 1964 he was elected an honorary member of the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the first Japanese to receive this honour. Tanizaki died in 1965.