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marq Both books are fiction with philosophical religious themes. Both Myers and Mishima evoke beautiful landscape though Mishima spectacularly and Myers more gently. Buddhism treated in both. The Near and the Far set in India as is The Temple of the Dawn (book three) partly, although Myer's is in the 16th century where Mishima's is in the 20th. Prince Jali is a troubled, introspective, somewhat disturbing but beautiful youth not unlike the typical Mishima character. Both books are tetralogies. Both Authors committed suicide.
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Challenging, but hypnotic. Reincarnation, ritual suicide, love, beauty...
"In heart, he always preferred the actuality of loss to the fear of it" (109).
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Yukio Mishima, the pseudonym for Hiraoka Kimitake, was born in Tokyo in 1925. His work covers many styles: poetry, essays, modern Kabuki ja Noh drama, and novels. Among his masterpieces are The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, and the four-volume novel Sea of Fertility, which outlines the Japanese experience in the 20th century. Each of the four show more volumes in this series has a distinct title--Spring Snow, Runaway Horses, The Temple of Dawn, and Five Signs of a God's Decay--and they were published over a six-year period, from 1965-1970. Mishima's plays include Tenth Day Chrysanthemum, and the Kabuki piece The Moon Like a Drawn Bow. Although Mishima was been nominated three times for the Nobel Prize for Literature, he never received it. Nevertheless, he is considered by many critics as one of the most important Japanese novelists of the 20th century. Yukio Mishima died by his own hand in 1970, committing seppuku (ritual disembowelment). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Sea of Fertility
- Original title
- 豐饒の海; Hōjō no Umi
- Original publication date
- 1971
- People/Characters
- Shigekuni Honda; Satoko Ayakura
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- Japan
- Important events
- Taishō period; Shōwa era
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 895.6 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Literatures of East and Southeast Asia Japanese
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- PL833 .I7 — Language and Literature Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Japanese language and literature Japanese literature Individual authors and works
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- 5
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- 1
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