Figure 1Shonen – The Yasunari Kawabata Trilogy (Producer: Mirei Yamagata, Director: Liang Yen Liu, Performer: Takao Kawaguchi) copyright of Hideto Maezawa.

Figure 2/Figure 3 Munakata Shikō, Sōhi no Zu [The Image of Two Goddesses], 1958. Two panel screen, 138.0×69.5 for each panel copyright of Munakata Shikō Memorial Museum of Art. Folding screen, painting by Munakata Shikō and calligraphy by Kaneko Ōtei to capture a part of diary entries from Tanizaki’s The Key, employing different writing systems (with the use of hiragana for the top screen, and katakana for the bottom screen to enact different writing systems employed by wife and husband-narrator, respectively, as originally written by Tanizaki) and different calligraphic styles accordingly.

Figure 2/Figure 3 Munakata Shikō, Sōhi no Zu [The Image of Two Goddesses], 1958. Two panel screen, 138.0×69.5 for each panel copyright of Munakata Shikō Memorial Museum of Art. Folding screen, painting by Munakata Shikō and calligraphy by Kaneko Ōtei to capture a part of diary entries from Tanizaki’s The Key, employing different writing systems (with the use of hiragana for the top screen, and katakana for the bottom screen to enact different writing systems employed by wife and husband-narrator, respectively, as originally written by Tanizaki) and different calligraphic styles accordingly.

Figure 4A Complicité co-production with Setagaya Public Theatre and barbicanbite09 Shun-kin, directed by Simon McBurney, inspired by A Portrait of Shunkin and In Praise of Shadows by Tanizaki Jun’ichirō (First premiered in 2008 at Setagaya Public Theatre) copyright of Robbie Jack.

Figure 5A Complicité co-production with Setagaya Public Theatre and barbicanbite09 Shun-kin, directed by Simon McBurney, inspired by A Portrait of Shunkin and In Praise of Shadows by Tanizaki Jun’ichirō (First premiered in 2008 at Setagaya Public Theatre) copyright of Sarah Ainslie.