Forbidden colors
by 三島由紀夫 and Noriko Thunman
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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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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 fictionPeople
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Forbidden colors
1999, Vintage Books
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- 1st VintageInternatonal ed.
0375705163 9780375705168
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Forbidden Colors
1991, Charles E. Tuttle Company : Publishers
Mass Market Paperback
4805301252 9784805301258
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Translation of Kinjiki.
Reprint of the ed. published by Knopf, New York.
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