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In Praise of Shadows

In Praise of Shadows
English language cover
AuthorJun'ichirō Tanizaki
Original title陰翳礼讃 (In'ei Raisan)
TranslatorThomas J. Harper and Edward G. Seidensticker
LanguageJapanese
GenrePhilosophy
Publication date
1933[1]
Publication placeJapan
Published in English
1977[1]
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages73

In Praise of Shadows (陰翳礼讃, In'ei Raisan) is a 1933 essay on Japanese aesthetics by the Japanese author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. It was translated into English, in 1977, by the academic students of Japanese literature Thomas J. Harper and Edward Seidensticker. A new translation by Gregory Starr was published in 2017.

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