Mizoguchi Burns the Temple

Yukio Mishima, inspired by the 1950 burning of the sacred Kinkakuji in Kyoto, fictionalizes this account in his novel Kinkakuji (translated as The Temple of the Golden Pavilion). Many people have read this novel as depicting a nihilistic and horrofic act of destruction motivated by maliciousness and...

The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society

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