Word: mishima
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Temple of the Golden Pavilion, by Yukio Mishima. A masterly exercise in reason-why literature-in this case, why a demented Buddhist priest, loathing beauty, burns down a magnificent 14th century Zen temple...
...Temple of the Golden Pavilion, by Yukio Mishima. A psychotic Buddhist priest, despising his ugly self and loathing beauty, burns down a magnificent 14th century temple-and a master of literary indirection tells...
...Temple of the Golden Pavilon, by Yukio Mishima. Beauty's dark power to paralyze the will is merely one among many meanings in this sensuously symbolic novel about the burning of a 14th century Buddhist temple...
...Temple of the Golden Pavilion, by Yukio Mishima. Beauty's dark power to paralyze the will is merely one among many meanings in this sensuously symbolic novel about the burning of a 14th century Buddhist temple...
Though his nature descriptions are superb, chrysanthemums and moon mist rarely monopolize Author Mishima's vision. He is especially good at charting the whiplash currents of the Japanese temperament, swerving in an instant from refinement to cruelty. His tilt with tradition is spirited but distinctly un-Japanese. Since 1950, the Kinkakuji has been meticulously rebuilt, and may well gaze at its limpid image in the Kyoko Pond for another demi-millennium...