Jun'ichirō Tanizaki MBTI Personality Type
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What personality type is Jun'ichirō Tanizaki? Jun'ichirō Tanizaki is an ISFJ personality type in MBTI, 4w5 - sp/sx - in Enneagram, in Big 5, in Socionics.
The way he uses adjectives in his descriptions is so precise and beautiful that everything becomes real and tangible. There is always a return to his youth in his novels, nostalgia and pain over the loss of traditional values, a conflict between the new and the old, with the implication that the old will win. I also see in him and his work the resilience imbued with a realism typical of high Si users. -- "But what produces such differences in taste? In my opinion it is this: we Orientals tend to seek our satisfactions in whatever surroundings we happen to find ourselves, to content ourselves with things as they are; and so darkness causes us no discontent, we resign ourselves to it as inevitable. If light is scarce then light is scarce; we will immerse ourselves in the darkness and there discover its own particular beauty. But the progressive Westerner is determined always to better his lot. From candle to oil lamp, oil lamp to gaslight, gaslight to electric light - his quest for a brighter light never ceases, he spares no pains to eradicate even the minutest of shadow." ("In praise of shadows" - essay on Japanese aesthetics)
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