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Title	:	The Temple of Dawn (The Sea of Fertility #3)
Author	:	Yukio Mishima
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	March 11th 2001 by Vintage Classics (first published 1970)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Literature

The Temple of Dawn (The Sea of Fertility #3) Paperback | Pages: 336 pages

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Yukio Mishima’s The Temple of Dawn is the third novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Here, Shigekuni Honda continues his pursuit of the successive reincarnations of Kiyoaki Matsugae, his childhood friend.
 
Travelling in Thailand in the early 1940s, Shigekuni Honda, now a brilliant lawyer, is granted an audience with a young Thai princess—an encounter that radically alters the course of his life. In spite of all reason, he is convinced she is the reincarnated spirit of his friend Kiyoaki. As Honda goes to great lengths to discover for certain if his theory is correct, The Temple of Dawn becomes the story of one man’s obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and his equally passionate search for enlightenment.

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Original Title:	曉の寺 [Akatsuki no tera]
ISBN:	0099282798 (ISBN13: 9780099282792)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Sea of Fertility #3
Characters:	Shigekuni Honda, Ying Chan, Shigeyuki Iinuma
Setting:	Bangkok(Thailand) Varanasi (Benares)(India) Kolkata(India) …more Tokyo(Japan) …less

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Fact: I'm not sure that I could love anything I might read by Mishima as much as I did his Runaway Horses, which is to me the best book of the now three that I've read in this tetraology. At the same time, Temple of Dawn is also an amazing and unforgettable novel, albeit (in my opinion) with not quite the same level of consistent intensity reached in the first two books. However, when all is said and done, it's another Mishima novel that kept me entirely entranced and on my own planet while

"Everything is in constant flux like a torrent."*Falling in love was a special privilege given to someone whose external, sensuous charm and internal ignorance, disorganization, and lack of cognizance permitted him to form a kind of fantasy about others. It was a rude privilege. Honda was quite aware that since his childhood, he had been the opposite of such a man.Time to re-examine these things, Honda.April 1, 18Actual rating: 3 stars for the first part; half a star for the rest.* Review to

The third in a series of four, this book follows Shigetoshi Honda in middle age, first as he meets a Thai princess whom he believes is Kiyoaki/Isaos reincarnation and later as he becomes obsessed with her. The earlier parts of the book were rather dull, more like a textbook describing various aspects of Buddhist beliefs about reincarnation than a novel. But then I almost wished the book had stayed dry, because reading about Hondas unhappy middle age and unhealthy fascination and voyeurism was

I was slightly scared going into this one. Not only was I aware that the translator had changed, but I also heard that it was really boring, with Honda just being indolent, visiting shrines, and rambling existentially the entire time. While it's true that Honda, as a character, may not be the most exciting person in the world, and that I struggled through his touring of India (and the majority of part 1 in general) I can't stress enough how this book picked up the thematic power of the series

Mishima really hates Japan in this one. Everyone's dissolute, jaded and exhausted. "There are only two roles for humans in this world: those who remember and those who are remembered" and "The Temple of Dawn" has only the former.

A book only requires sequels when said sequels advance the meaning of the book, and such a series ought to convey this endeavor in both its form and function. In the third installment of his Mare Fecunditatis tetralogy, Mishima Yukio beautifully achieves such an effect, and while his reach ever so slightly exceeds his grasp, when taken with the previous two novels, The Temple of Dawn is nevertheless a triumph. In many ways, The Temple of Dawn functions as an axis for the larger tetralogy: as the