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The tone and subject matter of his work range from shocking depictions of sexuality and destructive erotic obsessions to subtle portrayals of the dynamics of family life within the context of the rapid changes in 20th-century Japanese society. Frequently, his stories are narrated in the context of a search for cultural identity in which the West and Japanese tradition are juxtaposed.

He was one of six authors on the final shortlist for the Nobel Prize in Literature in , the year before his death. Tanizaki was born into a well-to-do merchant-class family in Nihonbashi , Tokyo , where his uncle owned a printing press , which had been established by his grandfather.

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His older brother, Kumakichi, died three days after his birth, which made him the next eldest son of the family. His childhood home was destroyed in the Meiji Tokyo earthquake , to which Tanizaki later attributed his lifelong fear of earthquakes. His family's finances declined dramatically as he grew older until he was forced to reside in another household as a tutor.

Despite these financial problems, he attended the Tokyo First Middle School , where he became acquainted with Isamu Yoshii. Tanizaki attended the Literature Department of Tokyo Imperial University from , but was forced to drop out in because of his inability to pay for tuition. Tanizaki began his literary career in His first work, a one-act stage play, was published in a literary magazine that he had helped found.