Featured Individuals
Among the historic and contemporary individuals mentioned in the essay are:
- Natsume Sōseki, novelist, on the experience of textures and landscape via the traditional Japanese toilet, p. 9; Sōseki's Pillow of Grass, p. 26.
- Saitō Ryokuu, poet quoted as saying "elegance is frigid", p. 10.
- Buddha and Confucius, p. 16.
- Kongō Iwao, Nō actor, p. 39.
- Baikō, aging Kabuki actor, p. 43.
- Takebaya Sanehiko, president of Kaizō Publishing House (which had published Tanizaki's earlier novel Quicksand), p. 54.
- Albert Einstein, scientist, p. 54.
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