The temple of the golden pavilion.
| ISBN: | 0679752706, 9780679752707 |
| OCLC Number: | 242040 |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| Author: | Yukio Mishima |
| Translator: | Ivan I. Morris |
| Language: | en |
| Publisher: | Knopf, 1959, 1968, 1972; Tuttle, 1959, 1973, 1985, 1994; Berkley Pub. Corp., 1971; Perigree Books, 1980; Vintage, 1994; Everyman's Library, 1994 |
| Publication Place: | New York; Rutland, VT; New York; New York; New York; New York |
| Japanese Copyright Year: | 1956 |
| English Publication Date: | 1959 |
| Notes: | Japanese title: Kinkakuji. Introduction by Nancy Wilson Ross. Drawings by Fumi Komatsu. |
| Related: | UNESCO collection of representative works: Japanese series |
| Abstract: | 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 comes under the influence of Kashiwagi, a fellow student with a very bitter view of life. |
| Subjects: | Arson, Fiction Buddhist temples, Fiction Fiction Kyoto, Fiction Psychological fiction Young men Yukio Mishima, Translations into English |