The Makioka Sisters (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
- First Published: 1949
- Type of Work: Social and psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1938-1941
- Setting: Kobe-Osaka district and Tokyo
- Principal Characters: Tsuruko, Sachiko, Yukiko, Taeko “Koi-San”, Tatsuo, Teinosuke, Etsuko, O-Haru, Okubata “Kei-Boy”, Itakura
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Family or family life, Tradition, Marriage, 1940’s, Class consciousness, 1930’s, Sisters, Japan or Japanese people, Tokyo, Honor
- Locales: Tokyo, Japan, Osaka, Japan, Kobe, Japan
The Novel
The Makioka Sisters is the saga of a proud, refined Japanese family that declines in fortune. The novel re-creates the sumptuous and pleasure-filled upper-class life of Osaka—the commercial center of Japan—just before and during World War II. Jun’ichirō Tanizaki carefully creates a detailed portrait of four once-rich and haughty sisters, whose lives encompass a wide area of joys and sorrows, and he provides simultaneously a satirically accurate description of the whims and fancies of a vanished era.
The novel opens with a marriage prospect...
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