Forbidden Colors
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| Author | Yukio Mishima |
|---|---|
| Original title (if not in English) | Kinjiki (禁色?) |
| Translator | Alfred H. Marks |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf (US Eng. trans]] |
| Released | 1953 (Eng. trans June 1968) |
| Media Type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 403 p. (US hardback edition) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-436-28153-8 (US hardback edition) |
Forbidden Colors (or Kinjiki (禁色?))is a novel by Yukio Mishima, translated 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 "colour". The word "kinjiki" also means colours which were forbidden to be worn by people of various ranks in the Chinese court.
[edit] Major themes
The novel, by Yukio Mishima, describes a marriage of a gay man to a young woman.
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