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    <body><![CDATA[In the west people tend to emphasize light in their environment... big windows, skylights. Shiny, gleaming surfaces are important and appear clean and fresh. Tanizaki wrote this short book to explain the importance of shadow and darkness in oriental culture... shadows that have been chased away with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50594230">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book sensitized me to light how different cultures use light. In Japanese architecture, natural light is always filtered, indirect and moody.  In western architecture, sunlight is highly valued; light is usually more direct. Shadows are chased away.<br/><br/>I always think of this book when I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28381499">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book really sensitized me ways cultural values feed into our sense of space and how, in turn, we view these spaces and the products that come out of them.  Tanizaki is mourning the loss of Japanese national sensibilities with regard to aesthetics; including the shadows embraced by their archite...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39613335">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This small  book about the Japanese house is an elegy to the pre-modern world when simple domestic materials and objects were cherished as they became &quot;un-new&quot; and revealed the marks of life in the house.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I fantasize about the toilets this man describes. It's an aesthetic ascetic vacation in book form. The shadows are warm ones: navy, charcoal, ocher, wood --- when darkness is tranquil. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Useful for understanding cultural context for Japan during the 1920s/30s: shows foci of the Japanese intellectuals and govt. during the transition between the Taisho and Showa periods... it's all about post westernization and nationalism, baby! Bring on the fascism! <br/><br/>It's interesting to s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48403072">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Adherents of the Japanese tradition, especially those with a special interest in the arts, will praise <em>In Praise of Shadows</em> by Junichiro Tanizaki, a leading figure and exponent of Japanese literature.<br/><br/>Tanizaki expatiates on the beauty and uniqueness of &quot;the Japanese way&quot; with hu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45333888">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[kereeen...<br/>bagi arsitek yang berada dalam mazhab fenomenologi.<br/>buku ini musti dibaca!<br/>tapi buku ini bukan ditulis oleh seorang arsitek. alih-alih, dia adalah seorang novelis.<br/>tanizaki menulis di awal abad XX, mengenai perbedaan orang barat dan orang jepang dalam menghayati benda-...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18819730">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Every time I am shown to an old, dimly lit, and, I would add, impeccably clean toilet in a Nara or Kyoto temple, I am impressed with the singular virtues of Japanese architecture. The parlor may have its charms, but the Japanese toilet truly is a place of spiritual repose. It always stands apa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/876952">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If Tanizaki had written this book from a Westerner's perspective, the essay would be regarded as retrograde and pessimistically nostalgic.  To be sure, only a highly-evolved culture is capable of a reciprocal relationship between production and appreciation.  A wholesale dismissal of progress, howev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41420045">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A sweeping, unscientific, but pertinent analysis of design and the tiny bits of history, soil and conversation that give rise to what we call &quot;good&quot; around us. This is a cool, mossy tea-garden of a book. The author is one of those happy and lucky travelers who bridged the gap between the E...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39130302">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A brief and deeply rewarding essay on the merits of traditional Japanese architecture, and to a larger extent, all pre-industrial and craft-based design. Tanizaki rhapsodises about Noh theatre performances, the color of miso in a lacquer bowl, the luminous qualities of gold leaf by candlelight, and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8807593">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[short and beautifully written (if) idiosyncratic essay on the place of darkness, shadow, decay and the unknown in japanese aesthetics. nothing you don't know, but said oh so well.<br/><br/>i heard werner herzog talk about this once.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary Japanese culture. Tanizaki's elegiac and deeply weird musings on electric lights, toilets, blackened teeth and more are elegantly and economically written.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[To my surprise, after reading various stories by Tanizaki &amp; always feeling a bit let down, I was ecstatic when I read this!  A play on words so brilliant I pulled it into a college paper on the personal essay.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[“De modo geral, nós, os japoneses, sentimos desassossego diante de objetos cintilantes”. A frase, de Junichiro Tanizaki, aponta o tema a partir do qual se desdobram as considerações do ensaio Em Louvor da Sombra. Tanizaki é um escritor notável. Com certeza, está na minha lista de 10 escrit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18665221">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A long essay, written in 1933. At times interesting, at other times if feels quite dated.  There is no real expertise here, rather an author offering his opinions &amp; observations &quot;in praise of shadows&quot;.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very inspiring, amusing and instructive short book, written in Tanizaki's autumn years. I learned a tremendous amount about Japanese aesthetics, architecture and decor from these pages.]]></body>
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