Part 5 — A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Junichiro Tanizaki was born in Tokyo in 1886. Upon his graduation from the Secondary School in 1905, he entered the First Higher Preparatory School where he took a course in law. “Swayed by the desire, unforsakable and strong, to take up literary pursuit,” to quote his own words, he changed for the course in English Literature two years later, giving up what little ambition he may have had in legal line. Next year, he advanced to the literary course in the Imperial University, Tokyo. In 1909, he was one of those youthful aspirants to venture upon the publication of a monthly magazine, “Shin Shichyo” (New Thought Current.) His interest and activity in the literary work had grown so intensive, by this time, that he was willing to give up his collegiate career. His trips to China, first in 1918 and second in 1926, were productive of travel sketches marked by keen power of observation and broad sympathy.

When the Taisho Eiga Kaisha (Taisho Moving Picture Company) was founded in 1920, Tanizaki engaged himself as advisor to the Scenario Department, which duty, however, he held only for a year. Brief as his connection was with the motion picture industry, he was responsible for some productions worked by a distinct literary quality.

Since then he has been devoting himself to his literary work, steadily contributing to monthly publications serials, short stories, plays and essays.

Junichiro Tanizaki Is the author of The Tattoo Artist and Kirin, 1909; The Youth, 1910; Atumono, 1912; O-Tsuya Koroshi 1915; O-Sai To Minokichi, 1915; Sorrows of a Pagan, 1916; Sickbed Images, 1916; Fears of a Certain Boy, 1919: A Shark Man, 1920; A Story of A and B, 1921; Honmoku Nights, 1922; Between God and Man, 1923; The Heart of a Dolt, 1924; All For The Love, 1921; Light, Shade and Love, 1924; Shanghai Sketches, 1926; and others.

版權所有

昭和二年七月五日印刷 昭和二年七月十五日發行 英譯現代日本文藝叢書 定價 金貳圓五拾錢 英譯 お艶殺し 譯者 岩堂全智 東京市麴町區内幸町一丁目五番地 ジャパン・タイムス社 發行者 不破瑳磨太

東京市麴町區内幸町一丁目五番地 印刷者 北村東一 東京市麴町區内幸町一丁目五番地 印刷所 ジャパン・タイムス社印刷部

東京市麴町區内幸町一丁目五番地 發行所 ジャパン・タイムス社出版部 振替口座 東京 六四八四八番 販賣所 全國各書店

">ジャパン・タイムス社版

英譯現代日本文藝叢書

THE JAPAN TIMES SERIES MASTERPIECES OF CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE FICTION

During the eras of Meiji and Taisho (1868–1926) the literary life of Japan was enriched by a wealth of atheneum of the world.

As literature is the mirror of a living age in which is reflected the life of the people and through which, more than any other medium, the students of the present and future eras may more readily gain an insight into the characteristics and the life of the people, the publishers are convinced that the placing before the world, of representative Japanese literature, will render an inestimable service by bringing to it fuller and better understanding of Japan and the Japanese.

お艶殺し 谷崎潤一郎作

A SPRING TIME CASE

(OTSUYA KOROSHI)

By Jun-ichiro Tanizaki rendered by Zenchi Iwado.

戲曲 井伊大老の死 中村吉藏作

THE DEATH OF II TAIRO

(DRAMA)

(Ii Tairo No Shi)

By Kichizo Nakamura rendered by Mock Joya.

草枕 夏目漱石作

UNHUMAN TOUR

(KUSAMAKURA)

By Soseki Natsume rendered by Kazutomo Takahashi.

Published by THE JAPAN TIMES

HIBIYA PARK, TOKYO, JAPAN

Price Yen 2.50 Each

Postage Domestic 18 sen. Foreign 30 sen.

Sent to Any Address on Receipt of the above Cost.