Junichiro Tanizaki\'s Naomi is both a hilarious story of one man\'s obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation\'s cultural confusion.
Determined to transform her into the perfect wife and to whisk her away from the seamy underbelly of post-World War I Tokyo, Joji adopts and ultimately marries Naomi, paying for English and music lessons t.
When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage waitress Naomi, he is instantly smitten by her exotic, almost Western appearance.
Junichiro Tanizaki\'s Naomi is both a hilarious story of one man\'s obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation\'s cultural confusion