FTP, name this Japanese author of Some Prefer Nettles and The Makioka Sisters.
In one of this author's works, one character is given a greyhound named Lindy after Charles Lindbergh and another character is given an uncensored version of Arabian Nights, and in another work by this author, the protagonists' neighbors the Stolzes move back to Nazi Germany.  The protagonist of one work by this author tries to excavate a swimming pool in the hopes of seeing his daughter-in-law in a swimsuit, and the protagonist of another work attends a dance at the El Dorado Club and works as a waitress at the Diamond CafÃ©.  In addition to those novels about Tokusuke Utsugi and a character who moves in with Joji Kawai, Diary of a Mad Old Man and Naomi, he wrote a novel in which The Love Suicides at Amijima is viewed by O-Hisa and the estranged couple Misako and Kaname and a novel in which Yukiko has trouble finding suitors due to a blemish over her eye.  FTP, name this Japanese author of Some Prefer Nettles and The Makioka Sisters.
In one of this author's works, one character is given a greyhound named Lindy after Charles Lindbergh and another character is given an uncensored version of Arabian Nights, and in another work by this author, the protagonists' neighbors the Stolzes move back to Nazi Germany.  
Junichiro Tanizaki