Abstract: As a master of Japanese aesthetics literature, Tanizaki Junichiro experienced a series of early attempts to find pain and pleasure from abusing and being abused, and later turned to the study on the Japanese classical and oriental classical beauty. He exhausted ten years of efforts to translate the classical masterpiece Genjimonogatari, immersed in the aesthetics world of traditional mononoaware beauty, thus its masterpiece Sazameyuki was born. Tanzaki inherited and extended the beauty of traditional mononoaware beauty through Sazameyuki. The sadness of declining aristocracy, the bad fate of women, and the natural mood of watching the material nature and feeling hurt, all inherited the consciousness of mononoaware beauty in Heian era. At the same time, he also expanded the mononoaware beauty in the funny and constructional way. He created the eternal female who are of tender fortitude also as the sensibility of mononoaware concept. He described the Sakura viewing and other activities in the way of life formulary. The sense of time and season, and the mood of hoping to reach the ancient aesthetic realm were condensed into a stylized taste, and was showed as the new look of modern mononoaware beauty. He also excavated and expanded the space of the sensuous space of the mononoaware beautythe shade, which interweaved illusory, hazy and soft feelings in the dark world of contrasting light and darkness.

Key words: mononoaware, Sazameyuki, eternal female, stylized fun, shade space