by JUNICHIRO TANIZAKI
{A beautiful blind musician exacts the ultimate sacrifice from the man who is both her disciple and her lover. A tattooist turns the body of an exquisite young girl into a canvas of her predatory inner nature. A young man is erotically imprisoned by memories of his absent mother. These scenarios of possession are told with such unearthly poise that Seven Japanese Tales will not begin to shock readers until they have turned its final page: it is guaranteed to haunt them long afterwards.}
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Author: JUNICHIRO TANIZAKI
Bio: {Junichiro Tanizaki was born in 1886 in Tokyo, and lived there until the earthquake of 1923, when he moved to the Kyoto-Osaka region, the scene of his great novel, The Makioka Sisters (1943-48). Among his other works are Naomi (1924), Quicksand (1930), Arr}