Jun Yichiro Tanizaki's Road Back To Toyo

"Return to Toyo " is a distinct phenomena in Japanese Modern Literary History. As an important writer of Japanese Literature, Jun Yichiro Tanizaki transferred his writing style from Satanism to Classicalism, which obviously showed the features of "Return to Toyo". This paper is based on his works, analyzing the representation and the reason of the change from the perspective of diachrony and form. On the first part of the paper, "Return to the home in heart", shows his writing career and change track with the geographical movement and his some works, including the pursuit of the aesthetics under the edification of the Tokyo tradition, the naissance of the Satanism because of western beatage influence and the devotion to the Japanese classical aesthetics after moving to the Kansai, while for Tanizaki China no longer a literary image but a bridge to think carefully about the differences between the oriental and the western culture. In the second part of the paper, " Return to the traditional arts", focuses on the concrete reflections of the "Return to Toyo", especially Tanizaki's attempts were made on artistic form. Since his failures on dramas and movies, Japanese traditional arts became the media for him to return to Toyo and made him to write a series of works with classical aesthetics characteristic, some of which present the style of "storytelling", a kind of goodbye to the skills of fiction, such as romance and monolog. In a word, Tanizaki's road to the classical aesthetics cannot be easily said as tradition is chosen while getting rid of the influence by the West, but he established his own style by digesting and introjecting the useful things from the western culture.