Junichiro Tanizaki was so keenly interested in films that he was actually involved in film-making. This is a famous episode in the author's career, but it may not be so widely known that he was also interested in and influenced by art photography. In fact Tanizaki was more than a mere amateur photographer; he not only took pictures but also developed and printed them by himself. What is more important, photography affected the style of his works written in the Taisho Period. Here I will read a photographic moment in his literary works.