Hardcover, 247 pages
English language
Published Sept. 23, 1995 by Everyman's Library.
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
by 三島由紀夫
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The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (金閣寺, Kinkaku-ji) is a novel by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima. It was published in 1956 and translated into English by Ivan Morris in 1959. The novel is loosely based on the burning of the Reliquary (or Golden Pavilion) of Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto by a young Buddhist acolyte in 1950. The pavilion, dating from before 1400, was a national monument that had been spared destruction many times throughout history, and the arson shocked Japan.
Subjects
- Young men
- Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Japanese Novel And Short Story
- Fiction
- Literary
- Temples, Buddhist
- Fiction / Literary
- Arson
- Kyoto (Japan)