Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎) was a Japanese author, and one of the major writers of modern Japanese literature, perhaps the most popular Japanese novelist after Natsume Sōseki. Some of his works present a rather shocking world of sexuality and destructive erotic obsessions; others, less sensational, subtly portray the dynamics of family life in 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 constructions of "the West" and "Japanese tradition" are juxtaposed. The results are complex, ironic, demure, and provocative.

See Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. 1886年7月24日東京・日本橋生まれ。東京帝国大学国文科中退。既成の倫理観に縛られることなく悪魔的な美と大胆なエロスを追求、独自の耽美的な世界を構築した。1965年7月30日、死去。