Japanese Classics


No Longer Human
The Setting Sun
I Am a Cat
Kokoro
The Tale of Genji
Snow Country
The Makioka Sisters
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Rashomon and Other Stories
The Poems of Nakahara Chuya
Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
The Woman in the Dunes
Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
Yukio Mishima
Might it have been nothing but life itself? Life; this limitless complex sea, filled with assorted flotsam, brimming with capricious, violent, and yet eternally transparent blues and greens.
Yukio Mishima, Thirst for Love

Yukio Mishima
A feeling of liberation should contain a bracing feeling of negation, in which liberation itself is not negated. In the moment a captive lion steps out of his cage, he possesses a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While he was in captivity, there were only two worlds to him; the world of the cage, and the world outside the cage. Now he is free. He roars. He attacks people. He eats them. yet he is not satisfied, for there is no third world that is neither the world of the ca ...more
Yukio Mishima, Thirst for Love

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