Taruho Inagaki (1900–1977) was a prolific Japanese modernist writer known for his highly idiosyncratic voice and vision, which by the 1970s had gathered a cult-like following in Japan. While a young student at an international school in Kobe, he became fascinated with other cultures, aeronautics, astronomy, and attractive young men—interests that recur throughout his oeuvre. His best-known works include One Thousand One-Second Stories (1923; translated 1998 by Tricia Vita), Miroku (1946), and The Aesthetics of Boy- Love (1968). Yukio Mishima: "There is Before Taruho and After Taruho."