The temple of the golden pavilion.
By: Translated by Ivan Morris. Introd. by Nancy Wilson Ross. Drawings by Fumi Komatsu.
Edition: [1st American ed.]
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1959
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; und
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Young men -- Fiction; Temples, Buddhist -- Fiction; Arson -- Fiction; Kyoto (Japan) -- Fiction
Description: 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.