Golden Pavilion Temple

Everyone has a Kinkaku-ji Temple in their heart.
Its demonic, irresistible beauty gradually pushes us towards a dark abyss.
How should you coexist with it? Perhaps, only by destroying it...

　　★ Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Yukio Mishima's masterpiece that established his reputation in Western literary circles.
　　★ Master Japanese literary translator Liu Ziqian meticulously re-presents the original text, leading readers to glimpse the subtle, splendid, and eccentric beauty of Mishima's language with refined and delicate prose.
　　★ The entire book is hardbound, designed by Xu Jinwei with the concept of "eroding the beautiful faith in one's heart," making it highly collectible.
　　★ What are beauty and evil? Solitude and eternity? Destruction and rebirth? A must-have book for architects, literature enthusiasts, philosophers, creators, and cultural travelers.

　　"Slay the Buddha, slay the patriarch... only then can you be liberated!"
　　An essential classic for entering Yukio Mishima's "World of Beauty and Explosions"

　　This book is based on the true event in 1950 where a young monk, Hayashi Shoken, set fire to Kinkaku-ji Temple. In the real world, the suspect confessed to the police: "I was jealous of Kinkaku-ji's beauty, so I burned it down..." In the novel, the protagonist Mizoguchi entrusts his soul to the beauty of Kinkaku-ji, using it to escape his distorted self-worth and disillusionment.

　　Since its publication in 1956, "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" has received widespread acclaim and is recognized as the culmination of Mishima's philosophy of beauty and explosion. It has been translated into multiple languages and is considered Yukio Mishima's masterpiece that earned him a nomination for the Nobel Prize in Literature and established his reputation in Western literary circles.