Tanizaki Junichiro as a husband and fatherLeft: Tanizaki and his wife, Ishikawa ChiyokoRight: Taniza

Tanizaki Junichiro as a husband and fatherLeft: Tanizaki and his wife, Ishikawa ChiyokoRight: Tanizaki and his daughterFun Fact: Ishikawa Chiyoko had a younger sister who lived with them who was the model for Nakahara Chuuya’s poem “Michiko” and the model for Tanizaki’s character Naomi in Naomi.(you can read the sources for this fun fact and a dirty tid-bit about Tanizaki under the cut)Sources: In The Poems of Nakahara Chuuya there is an end note that reads, “Ooka Shohei has written that the original Michiko was Hayama Michiko, the screen name of Ishikawa Seiko, another film actress who lodged in Kyoto at the same longings as Yasuko. Nakahara later described her to Ooka as an ideal woman. The ‘ideal woman’ was also sister-in-law to Tanizaki Junichiro, and when Nakahara knew her she had already lived for some years in a Menage a trois with her sister Chiyo and Tanizaki, who apparently preferred her as partner in his favourite masochistic sex games. Tanizaki scripted some of her film roles, and she supposedly was his model for the go-getting Naomi, a teenage bar hostess with a face like Mary Pickford’s, who is the central character of his 1924 novel Chijin no ai (translated as Naomi).”  In an official BSD Language Handbook it says (pardon my rough translation) “Naomi’s model was the younger sister of Ishikawa” underneath the picture. -- source link

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