JPN 306 Intro. to Japanese Literature

5/07/2001
Tanizaki Junichiro

1. Identify several Western writers who influenced Tanizaki as a young man. What do these writers have in common?

2. What major change took place in Tanizaki's life following the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923?

3. What did Tanizaki spend the war years doing?

4. What one thing most clearly characterizes Tanizaki's work?

5. How does Tanizaki tend to characterize men? Women?

6. How does Tanizaki reverse gender roles in his fiction?

7. What sort of fetish is often found in Tanizaki's work?

8. How does Tanizaki deal with issues of the sacred and the profane?

Last Update: May 10, 2001 -- Andrea Erickson
Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures    University of Oregon