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Mizoguchi takes a trip to the Sea of Japan and has his first visit to a brothel. Then the Golden Pavilion burns.

This episode is part of our post-war Japanese literature cycle.

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima, translated by Ivan Morris. Copyright © 1959 by Ivan Morris. Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc., on behalf of the author’s estate.