Many places influence other cultures which has both its upsides and downsides, but Tanizaki feels obligated to remind the audience of past aesthetics. The author is mainly informing the audience of his insights on what Japan should be versus what it's like in his time period. Tanizaki portrays many of his thoughts on past traditional Japanese culture, but doesn't include the many negative events of past aesthetics which shows the audience that In Praise of Shadows is mainly the authors’ one-sided view on both traditional past Japanese aesthetics and modernized western inventions and how he believes it is destroying any trace of Japan's past
Many places influence other cultures which has both its upsides and downsides, but Tanizaki feels obligated to remind the audience of past aesthetics. The author is mainly informing the audience of his insights on what Japan should be versus what it's like in his time period. Tanizaki portrays many of his thoughts on past traditional Japanese culture, but doesn't include the many negative events of past aesthetics which shows the audience that In Praise of Shadows is mainly the authors’ one-sided view on both traditional past Japanese aesthetics and modernized western inventions and how he believes it is destroying any trace of Japan's past