The author of Naomi and Some Prefer Nettles, this author praised the Japanese toilet in a famous essay, while Turuko, Sachiko, Yukiko, and Taeko are the four titular women of this man's most famous novel.
Howard Hibbet translated one of this man's later novels which centers on the diary entries of the unnamed husband of Ikuko and father of Toshiko who tries to get his wife to commit adultery to increase his own desire. . That novel is The Key, but an earlier novel centers on the deepening relationship with Sonoko and Mitsuko. Joji attempts to turn a vaguely European looking girl out of Japanese tradition and into western culture in another novel by this author, but this author of Quicksand later wrote a work in which "going to Suma" is a euphemism for an extramarital affair on the behalf of KAname. The author of Naomi and Some Prefer Nettles, this author praised the Japanese toilet in a famous essay, while Turuko, Sachiko, Yukiko, and Taeko are the four titular women of this man's most famous novel. For 10 points, name this author of In Praise of Shadows and The Makioka Sisters.
Howard Hibbet translated one of this man's later novels which centers on the diary entries of the unnamed husband of Ikuko and father of Toshiko who tries to get his wife to commit adultery to increase his own desire. .
Juni'chiro {Tanizaki}