瘋癲老人日記 Fuuten roujin nikki = Diary of a mad old man
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First edition
Tokyo: Chuo Koron Sha, 1962. First edition, 8vo, pp. 2 , 241, 3 ; color pictorial title page, text illustrations throughout by Shiko Munakata, pictorial boards also by him, light edgewear, text clean and sound, very good, with bifolium prospectus but without the slipcase. Tanizaki has been considered one of the big three post-war Japanese novelists. His work often explored sexual obsession, and in this, is his penultimate novel, the protagonist dies from a
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