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This paper aims to study Chijinnoai of Tanizaki focusing the image of Tokyo, the capital city of Taisho Japan. Although Chijinnoai set a scene in Tokyo, Tanizaki wrote the novel after moving to the province of Gwanseo due to the Great Kanto Earthquake. Thinking that Tanizaki, as a native of the Edo, has never returned to Tokyo since then, it is certain that his literature was seriously affected by the Great Kanto Earthquake. In this sense, it is said that the experience of Tokyo that Tanizaki had have was posthumously projected to the novel of Chijinnoai. In other words, it is required to study that by contrast to other novels that set a scene in the Edo or Tokyo and written before the Great Kanto Earthquake, Chijinnoai had to be newly and differently researched, in that it was written after the Earthquake. As a result, it is clearly found that in the novel of Chijinnoai had been the change of Japanese society, and the image of Tokyo has been projected to the image of Naomi. The image of Tokyo that was showed in Naomi was a double image that the emotion of high collar and melancholy crossed. Moreover, the destructive image of Naomi overlapped with the image of Tokyo that was destructed by the Great Kanto Earthquake and indicated the end of modernism, that is, the break-up between the writer and the West.