375 pages
Japanese language
Published 2003 by Shinchōsha.
4 stars
(1 review)
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.
Subjects
- Young men -- Fiction.
- Temples, Buddhist -- Fiction.
- Arson -- Fiction.
- Kyoto (Japan) -- Fiction.