A fact from In Praise of Shadows appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 November 2008, and was viewed approximately 653 times ( disclaimer) ( check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that in his 1933 essay In Praise of Shadows, Junichirō Tanizaki includes monastery toilets in his reflections on Japanese aesthetics? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/November.

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This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 04:08, 10 November 2007 (UTC) reply

and made start class and mid importance on Oct 31. Hope I've made changes properly. Julia Rossi ( talk) 05:38, 31 October 2008 (UTC) reply

Reverted. There are no "after the essay" list of cultural notes -- it is all within his essay, please be sure before you invent something like this. Julia Rossi ( talk) 04:45, 9 November 2008 (UTC) reply

"in praise of shadows" does not directly link to this page. I'll become more responsible in the future, but could someone fix this in the meantime? 74.250.162.67 ( talk) 01:06, 26 June 2009 (UTC) reply

I've read this essay in English. It is almost inexpressibly beautiful. Therefore, I am wondering how the Harper-Seidensticker translation was received by literary Japanese speakers or even an appraisal by Tanizaki himself. Is there any praise or criticism for the men's efforts? The success or failure of the translation is not mentioned at all in this article. Thank you for your time, Wordreader ( talk) 01:11, 26 November 2016 (UTC) reply