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In Praise of Shadows

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Jason Kottke liked it affiliate
In Praise of Shadows by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki. Read this book about Japanese aesthetics while visiting Japan — it provided an interesting context. (B+)

on kottke.org · 26 Nov 2025

This book on rcmnd →

That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.