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Sep 21, 2008
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This is a hard book to categorize. Tanizaki covers a wide range of subjects, moods, experiences. The great tie-in is simply shadow. Tanizaki expounds on the beauty and depth of shadows to an extent quite worthy of the essay's title. I especially appreciated his observation that beauty is distilled from daily life: we will find beautiful, and make beautiful, that which fits in with our environment and lifestyle.
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Very interesting and thought provoking.
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