Author: Mishima Yukio
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The temple of the golden pavilion.
The son of a poor rural priest becomes an acolyte at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion. Mizoguchi had built up an image of ideal beauty in his mind based on this Golden Pavilion; this ideal image causes him to feel disappointed in any supposed form of beauty, even the actual physical Golden Pavilion. He…
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Five modern Noh plays
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After the banquet
For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness. But when the she falls in love with one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, she renounces her business in order to become his wife.
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The sailor who fell from grace with the sea
Explores an adolescent’s response to his mother’s love affair with a handsome visitor to Yokohama.
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The sailor who fell from grace with the sea ; The temple of the golden pavilion ; and, Confessions of a mask
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Silk and insight
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Spring snow
Kiyoaki Matsugae’s passionate and ill-fated love for the betrothed daughter of a Tokyo aristocrat brings him into disfavor at the Imperial Court.
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Runaway horses
The chronicle of a conspiracy and a novel about the roots and nature of Japanese fanaticism in the years that led to war, an era marked by depression, social change and political violence.
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The temple of dawn
A young man expends his spirit in the obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and a passionate search for mystical enlightement.
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The decay of the angel
During the last years of his life, Honda adopts an orphaned boy and teaches him about Japanese society and tradition.