Mishima's The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
1956 · Work
Mishima's novel of the stuttering acolyte who burned Kyoto's Kinkaku-ji in 1950 because he could not bear its beauty — the book that made his international name.
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- Edo period (1603)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
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- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
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- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
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Around 1956
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- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
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- Apartheid (1948)
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- Korean War (1950)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)