A Cat, a Man, and Two Women, by Junichiro Tanizaki

A "lazy, good-for-nothing, weak-willed" man's love in his cat, and his ex-wife, calculating and cunning, changed her hatred t0 the cat to love. The relationship among the those humans are much more complicated.

A very nice story!

The second story is what was described in Tanizaki's Childhood Years.

Translated by Paul McCarthy. Published by Konansha International, Tokyo, 1990. Hardcover. ISBN 0870117556.
From the same publisher, and only two years after Childhood Years, this book uses low-quality paper and binding. Is it because the big inflation just started in Japan?

It looks like I read all the works of Tanizaki, available in English. (I read his The Makioka Sisters in Chinese.)

Childhood Years: A Memoir, by Junichiro Tanizaki

It has some interesting episodes, but it is very dense, containing
numerous names of people and places and other details. I guess Tanizaki just wanted to write down his memory, to live through the old time, without caring too much whether those details are appealing to general readers.

Translated by Paul McCarthy. Published by Konansha International, Tokyo, 1988. Hardcover. ISBN 0870118633.
The book uses very high quality paper, and even after 11 years, it still looks much better than most books published nowadays. It is beautifully bound, similar or even superior to Everyman's library.