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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Penguin
Language
English
Pages
429

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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
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Forbidden colours
1976, Penguin
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Forbidden colors
1970, Avon
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Translation of Kinchiki.

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Dewey Decimal Class
895.6/3/5
Library of Congress
PZ3.M6878 Fo8, PL833.I7 Fo8, PL833.I7 K5413 1971

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Pagination
429 p. ;
Number of pages
429

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OL4598238M
Internet Archive
forbiddencolours0000mish
ISBN 10
0140033149
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77360974
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30089
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493570

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