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Forbidden Colors
by Mishima, Yukio
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 4805301252
- ISBN 13
- 9784805301258
- Seller
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Tokyo: Tuttle, 1984. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Purple, black, brown & green covers. 12mo, 403 pages. Translated by Alfred H. Marks.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- NWJBOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020943
- Title
- Forbidden Colors
- Author
- Mishima, Yukio
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 4805301252
- ISBN 13
- 9784805301258
- Publisher
- Tuttle
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo
- Date Published
- 1984
- Pages
- 403
- Keywords
- fiction; Tokyo; homosexuality
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...