In Praise of Shadows
by 谷崎潤一郎
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"This is a powerfully anti-modernist book, yet contains the most beautiful evocation of the traditional Japanese aesthetic, which cast such a spell on Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright.
"The contradiction is easily explained: Tanizaki sees the empty Japanese wall as not empty at all, but a surface on which light continually traces its fugitive presence against encroaching shadow. He constructs a myth of the origin of the Japanese house: it began with a roof and overhanging eaves, which cast a shadow on the earth, calling forth a shelter."
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Lob des Schattens: [Entwurf einer japanischen A sthetik]
1987, Manesse-Verlag
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Éloge de l'ombre
1986, Publications orientalistes de France
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In Praise of Shadows
January 1980, Leetes Island Books
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