"Akatsuki Temple" Author: [Japan] Yukio Mishima Publisher: Liaoning People's Publishing House

The Four Parts of the Sea of ​​Plenty - The Final Work

【Editor's recommendation】

The four parts of the series are respectively about "Wa-kon", "Ara-kon", "Ki-kon" and "Kyou-kon". These "four souls" interpret four kinds of life through the cycle of life and death, forming a spiral cyclical world.

This work, which the Japanese call "the great river novel", interrogates the fundamental issues in life one by one, such as survival, love, war, death and fate with Buddha, and finally interprets the theme of "everything in the world is an illusion, and life is nothingness". Mishima Yukio himself believes that the world looks like a magnificent "sea of ​​abundance" on the surface, but in fact it is a moon sea without water or air. Although it is called "abundant", it is actually scarce.

"The suffocation in the book is due to the author's fierce struggle with the emptiness in his heart." - Shibusawa Ryuhiko

【Content Introduction】

The third part of the "Sea of ​​Plenty" series: an exotic sense of impermanence

"The preparation for reincarnation lasts throughout a person's long life, not just after death. The world is renewed moment by moment, and abandoned moment by moment at the same time."

In 1941, the 47-year-old Honda saw the young Moonlight Princess of Thailand and believed that she was the reincarnation of Xun. After returning to Japan, he began to study reincarnation and the theory of consciousness. Facing the ruins of Tokyo, Honda's collapse deepened. 10 years later, Honda was already an old man, and he fell into an irresistible secret love for the grown-up Moonlight Princess, but he discovered the secret of Moonlight Princess while peeping. After returning to her country, the 20-year-old Moonlight Princess died of a snake bite, and a new round of reincarnation seemed to be about to begin...

Mishima Yukio

(1925-1970), formerly known as Hiraoka Kimitake, is a contemporary Japanese novelist, playwright, and film actor. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature many times. This outlier in the Japanese literary world worshipped martyrdom-like death throughout his life. In his short life, he tried his best to interpret the diversity of beauty with words. Donald Keane, an American authority on Japanese literature, believes that Mishima is "an unparalleled genius writer in the world."

Chen Dewen

Born in Pi County, Jiangsu Province, he is a professor at Nanjing University. He graduated from the Department of Oriental Languages ​​and Literature of Peking University with a major in Japanese in 1965. In 1985, he went to Waseda University for study and research. He is currently a full-time professor at Aichi Bunkyo University in Japan. He has translated and published many famous works by famous Japanese writers.