Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Memorial Museum of Literature, Ashiya, Literary museum in Ashiya, Japan.
The Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Memorial Museum of Literature, opened in Ashiya in 1988, consists of a reinforced-concrete, two-storey building modelled on the sukiya-style residence Tanizaki favoured, together with a 300 m² Japanese garden. Its rooms display the desk, inkstone, brushes and art objects donated by his family, and a 15-tonne garden stone from his former Okamoto house stands beside the entrance.
The author was active during the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa periods and left a significant literary legacy. The institution was established in 1988 to preserve his memory and make his work available to the public.
The museum's hall hosts readings of Tanizaki's literature, literary lectures, talks and concerts connected with the author. The building itself imitates the sukiya-style residence he favoured, and a 300 m² Japanese garden adjoins it. The 15-tonne boulder beside the entrance came from the garden of his former house in Okamoto, Kobe, where it had been washed in by the Hanshin flood disaster and kept as a garden stone.
The museum is a 15-minute walk south from Hanshin Ashiya Station. It is closed on Mondays and from 28 December to 4 January; last entry is at 16:30. The Ashiya City Museum of Art and History and the city library stand next door.
The 15-tonne boulder beside the entrance came from Tanizaki's former garden in Okamoto, Higashinada-ku, Kobe. It was swept into that garden by the Hanshin flood disaster and kept there as a garden stone; it was later moved here.
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