![]() His childhood home was destroyed in the 1894 Meiji Tokyo earthquake, to which Tanizaki later attributed his lifelong fear of earthquakes. Tanizaki described his admittedly pampered childhood in his Yōshō Jidai ( Childhood Years, 1956). Tanizaki had three younger brothers: Tokuzō, Seiji (also a writer) and Shūhei, as well three younger sisters: Sono, Ise and Sue. ![]() His older brother, Kumakichi, died three days after his birth, which made him the next eldest son of the family. His parents were Kuragorō and Seki Tanizaki. 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. ![]() Tanizaki (left) as a student of the First Higher School, and its Head Master Nitobe Inazō (right), in 1908. ![]()
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