This edition of Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s Short Fiction was produced from various translations. “Tattooing” was translated by Ijichi Sumimasa and originally published in 1923. “A Springtime Case” was tran...

It was in those days when people had the virtue of stupidity and life was not yet busy as is today. It was in those happy days when life was so unrestrained that the gentle faces of nobles and young l...

It was around the tolling of the fifth hour in the early evening that a fishmonger, of the next street, in a flush of drink and a rush of self-imposed urgency, sped into the pawn-broking shop of Surug...

It was around the tolling of the fifth hour in the early evening that a fishmonger, of the next street, in a flush of drink and a rush of self-imposed urgency, sped into the pawn-broking shop of Surug...

“To settle the thing right and proper, you shouldn’t be too hasty, you know. Ten days or so of patience. In the meantime, you had better stay away from people as much as possible. Our rooms upstairs s...

In the days Shinsuké lived with his own folk, he was often taken by his father to the home of a certain gambler master by the name of Kinzo, with whom his father maintained some sort of personal relat...

Three hours or so after Tsuya and Tokubey left, the midnight hour tolled, and on its stroke Shinsuké started out, disguised as a geisha’s attendant man. The Mukojima house in view was said to be found...

Search for the whereabouts of Tokubey, made at large and at length by his henchmen, had proved quite fruitless. Ashizawa admitted to the inquiry that he had wounded the man, who, however, took to his ...

Kakutaro (Kaku-chan). A young man enchanted by a fox. Osayo. His lover. Osayo’s Mother. An old woman. The Fox. The Fox’s Children. A Foreign Woman. An Old Woman Servant. Attendant to foreign woman. A ...

Kakutaro (Kaku-chan). A young man enchanted by a fox. Osayo. His lover. Osayo’s Mother. An old woman. The Fox. The Fox’s Children. A Foreign Woman. An Old Woman Servant. Attendant to foreign woman. A ...

Into the middle of the stage from above runs a deep and narrow stream. Many large rocks and boulders in the bed of the stream prevent the audience from seeing the water, but the rushing torrent can be...

Cho, generally translated as “street,” is used in designating a particular locality of town, including a street line and, often, its neighbourhood. ↩ “O-Tami-don” is one of familiar ways of addressing...