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This paper aims to extract common topic and aesthetic sense among the essays of Lee Tea-jun and Tanizaki Junichiro and to chase the relationship of the aesthetic sense contained in the essays. Tanizaki Junichiro is a writer whom Lee Tea-jun had loved to read. The essays of the two writers are common in the aspect that they deal with the Orient in the point of view of aesthetic warmth and they come from the real life of the two writers. This study tries to find the reason, from which the writer, who wrote essays under the effect of orientalism, was deeply influenced by another writer, not in the orientalism but in the emotional mechanism in which nationality or the Orient is changed to something subjective. According to Kant, aesthetic sense does not come from sensible comfortableness or an air of difference but from the activeness in which attention is actively thrown away. The two writer's attitude, with which they describe tradition and classics as calm and longing in their essays under the situations of the time, mean that they refreshingly found the difference among Chosun, Japan, the Orient and the West under the intentional overlooking about the situations of colonial Chosun and empire Japan. In other words, it means that the two wirters could talk about the art itself in their essays by ignoring the situations of the time on purpose. Therefore the way, in which they tried to grow away from politics and capital, was the motive with which the two artists could comfort themselves and write again.