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Junichiro Tanizaki’s “Sasameyuki” started serializing in 1943, but it was a work that was interrupted by the military as not suited for the war period. However, Tanizaki has continued to write after that, and it was completed in 1948. The story time of “Sasameyuki” is from 1936 to 1941 that is just before the outbreak of the Pacific War. “Sasameyuki” is a work about the everyday life of the four sisters of the traditional family called the Makioka family. Among them, events up to the marriage of Yukiko, the third sister, play a role as the axis of the story. Although Yukiko experiences five matchmaking in the story, this paper is analyzed the last matchmaking with Mimaki Minoru who is a bastard child of viscount and getting married with Yukiko. The last matchmaking with Minoru is made by a beautician Itani and the president of the publisher Kunijima. For Itani’s going to the United States, Yukiko got acquainted with the president of the publisher of Tokyo where Mitsuyo works, and the matchmaking with Minoru rises in the process. The Makioka family receive this matchmaking because although he is not a regular worker, but he is a bastard child of viscount, it is thought that the matchmaking made in one room of a hotel where Itani stays before she is going to the United States, has not been established as a matchmaking. Despite not establishing as a matchmaking, Yukiko get married to Minoru, but what is the purpose of the relationship that is not established as a marriage. Although the story of the marriage of Minoru and Yukiko being not to describe to the end of all, Minoru’s marriage is controlled by Kunishima, and Yukiko obeys Kunishima’s instructions by getting married. Although the marriage regarded as a good match, marriage depended on others can never be considered a good match. Also, fact that marriage with Minoru is set just before the Pacific War is intended to make the reader who experienced defeat in war predicts that marriage of Yukiko is never stable. A failure of Yukiko’s marriage shows that the Makaoka family will collapse in the era of wartime.