NMLP P-017399 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Some Prefer Nettles (Tade Kuu Mushi)

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki · Alfred A. Knopf (New York) · 1955

The Knopf US edition of 1955 is the first edition in English; the UK edition (Secker & Warburg, London) followed in 1956 using the same Seidensticker translation. The Japanese original was serialized 1928 to 1929.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-017399 for "Some Prefer Nettles (Tade Kuu Mushi)" by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-017399, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).