The Tattoo and Other Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9784805319598)

Anthony H. Chambers is the author of Remembering Tanizaki Junichiro and Matsuko and translator of many works by Junichiro Tanizaki, including Naomi and The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi. For his study and translation of Ueda Akinari's Tales of Moonlight and Rain, he received the Japan-United States Friendship Commission Prize. He is Professor Emeritus of Japanese at Arizona State University and has also taught at Wesleyan University and the Associated Kyoto Program.

Paul McCarthy has taught Japanese language, literature, and religion, as well as English language and literature and comparative literature, at universities in America and Japan. He is an emeritus professor of Surugadai University. He continues to translate and comment on Japanese literature, notably on Junichiro Tanizaki and Mishima Yukio. His translation of Tanizaki's A Cat, a Man, and Two Women won the Japan-United States Friendship Commission Prize in 1991.

J. Keith Vincent teaches Japanese, Comparative Literature, and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Boston University, where he also directs the MFA program in Literary Translation. His translation of Okamoto Kanoko's A Riot of Goldfish won the Japan-United States Friendship Commission Prize, and his translation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novella Devils in Daylight was shortlisted for the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize in 2018. His retranslation of Natsume Soseki's novel Michikusa is forthcoming from Tuttle.