NMLP P-017403 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Key (Kagi)

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki · Alfred A. Knopf (New York) · 1961

Both the Knopf US edition and the Secker & Warburg UK edition appeared in 1961. The Knopf US issue is conventionally cataloged as the first English-language edition, but because the two are the same year the priority is not absolutely settled from publication records alone; identify the US issue by the Borzoi colophon and Knopf first-edition statement. The Japanese original (Kagi) was published 1956.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-017403 for "The Key (Kagi)" by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-017403, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).