Forbidden Colors [Colours]
by Yukio Mishima; translated by Alfred H. Marks
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 4805301252
- ISBN 13
- 9784805301258
- Seller
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Moraga, California, United States
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About This Item
Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1969. Ninth printing (1984) of this Tuttle republication of the translation first pubished by Alfred A. Knopf in 1968. Softcover. Near Fine. Large pocket-size, 4 1/4 x 7 1/8. 3F. A clean and attractive copy of this Tuttle reprint. Tight binding with square, uncreased spine. No marks. Some sunning of pages and covers, but no fragility. (The Avon version of this title will probably fall apart at a touch.) Hardly any cover wear.
Synopsis
Forbidden Colors is a novel by 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 which 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.
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- Bookseller
- Fox & Hedgehog (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1023
- Title
- Forbidden Colors [Colours]
- Author
- Yukio Mishima; translated by Alfred H. Marks
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- Ninth printing (1984) of this Tuttle republication of the transl
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 4805301252
- ISBN 13
- 9784805301258
- Publisher
- Charles E. Tuttle Company
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo
- Date Published
- 1969
- Pages
- 403
- Size
- Large pocket-size, 4 1/4 x 7 1/8
- Keywords
- Novels, Japanese literature, 20th-centry literature
- X weight
- 19 oz
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