Junichiro TanizakiThinkers

Beauty is impossible without shadows.

Beauty is not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.

Hinting is generally the best way to address most things.

Japanese cuisine is to be looked at rather than eaten.

The Room , in Japan, is a space that depends on a variation of shadows, heavy shadows against light shadows -- it has nothing else.

The Shadow is part of beauty, for beauty is not only in the thing itself but also in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

Shadow is that without which there would be no beauty.

Shibui is neutral colors that are used so that the sad, fragile, dying rays can sink into absolute repose.

Tokyo is a rude, unfinished frontier community.

Tokyo is not a city but a village, or a collection of villages.