In this fascinating book length essay, Japanese author Junichiro Tanizaki mesmerises, teases, provokes and even exasperates his readers with a degree of deliberateness that is calculated yet spontaneous; facetious yet severe. Tanizaki dwells with great vigour on an aesthetic that has its edifice in the murkiness of shadows, not just symbolically, but literally. Arguing that … Continue reading In Praise of Shadows – Junichiro Tanizaki