An edition of Kinjiki (1964)

Forbidden Colours

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An edition of Kinjiki (1964)

Forbidden Colours

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Forbidden Colors (禁色, Kinjiki) is a 1951 novel (禁色 Part 2 秘楽 (Higyō) "Secret Pleasure" was published in 1953) by the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, translated into English in 1968. The name kinjiki is a euphemism for homosexuality. The kanji 禁 means "forbidden" and 色 in this case means "erotic love", although it can also mean "color". The word "kinjiki" also means colors that were forbidden to be worn by people of various ranks in the Japanese court. It describes a marriage of a gay man to a young woman. Like Mishima's earlier novel Confessions of a Mask, it is generally considered somewhat autobiographical.

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Forbidden Colours
2008, Penguin Books Ltd
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Forbidden colors
1999, Vintage Books
in English - 1st VintageInternatonal ed.
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Forbidden Colors
1991, Charles E. Tuttle Company : Publishers
Mass Market Paperback
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Forbidden colors
1980, Perigee Books
in English
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Forbidden colours
1976, Penguin
in English
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Forbidden colors
1970, Avon
in English

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PL833.I7

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OL26004633M
ISBN 13
9780141189567

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