Cover of 陰翳礼讃 (In'ei raisan)

陰翳礼讃 (In'ei raisan)

by 谷崎潤一郎

1986 114 pages fre ★ 4.0 (3 ratings)

"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…

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