An edition of Kinjiki (1964)

Forbidden colors

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An edition of Kinjiki (1964)

Forbidden colors

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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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Perigee Books
Language
English
Pages
403

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Subjects
Fiction, Gay youth, Young men, Japanese Novelists, Gay men, Autobiographical fiction, Criticism and interpretation, Japanese literature, Japan, fiction, Authors, fiction, Gay men, fiction, Fiction, gay, LGBTQ novels before Stonewall, Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, general, Children's fiction
People
Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)
Places
Japan
Times
20th century

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Forbidden colors
1999, Vintage Books
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Forbidden Colors
1991, Charles E. Tuttle Company : Publishers
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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
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Translation of Kinjiki.

Reprint of the ed. published by Knopf, New York.

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Dewey Decimal Class
895.6/35
Library of Congress
PL833.I7 K5313 1980

The Physical Object

Pagination
vi, 403 p. ;
Number of pages
403

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OL4100263M
Internet Archive
forbiddencolors00mishrich
ISBN 10
0399504907
LCCN
80014679
Library Thing
30089
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895687

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