Kinkakuji (Shincho Bunko)
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[New edition, new Yukio Mishima]
We must burn down the Kinkaku. A young man's "confession" that leads to ruin.
The most read Mishima work. It has also received high international praise. [New Commentary] Riku Onda
?gBeauty...aesthetic things are already my enemies.?h For Mizoguchi, a learned monk who suffers from a stutter and an ugly appearance, the Kinkaku was a beauty that transcended the rest of the world. So why did he have so much admiration for this? This timeless masterpiece is based on the real-life Kinkaku arson incident, and to which 31-year-old Mishima has entrusted his entire inner self. Depicting images of blood and fire (denial of phenomena and affirmation of ideas) - this is the greatest principle that runs through Mishima's literature.
At the end of the book, there are detailed notes on terminology, historical background, etc., explanations by Shoichi Saeki, Mitsuo Nakamura, and Riku Onda, and a chronology.
[From the beginning of the text]
Since I was a child, my father often told me about the Golden Temple.
I was born on a lonely cape that juts out into the Sea of ??Japan, from Maizuru to Tohoku. My father's hometown was not there, but Shiraku in the eastern suburbs of Maizuru. At his request, he entered the priesthood and became the chief priest of a temple on a remote cape, where he got a wife and had a child named me.
There was no suitable junior high school near the temple at Cape Naru. Eventually, I left my parents' home and was placed in the care of my uncle in my father's hometown, from where I walked to Higashi-Maizuru Junior High School. ...("Chapter 1")
Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)
Born in Tokyo. Real name: Kimitake Hiraoka. After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo in 1947, he worked at the Ministry of Finance, but quit after nine months and began writing. In 1949, he published his first novel, ``Confessions of a Mask,'' and established himself as a writer. His major works include ``Shiosai'' (Shinchosha Literary Award) in 1954, ``Kinkakuji'' (Yomiuri Literary Award) in 1956, and ``Marquise de Sade'' (2065) (Art Festival Award). On November 25, 1970, after finishing the final draft of Volume 4 of The Sea of ??Fertility, ``The Five Declines of Tenjin'', he committed suicide at the Self-Defense Forces Ichigaya Garrison. Mishima literature has been translated into foreign languages ??and is loved all over the world.
Yukio Mishima (Author)
Publisher: Shinchosha; New edition (2020/10/28)
Release date: 2020/10/28
Language: Japanese
>Paperback: 400 pages
ISBN-10: 4101050457
ISBN-13: 978-4101050454
Dimensions: 10.7 x 1.4 x 15.2 cm
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