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"The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" is the most representative novel by the famous Japanese writer Mishima Yukio. The story is based on the actual arson incident that occurred in July 1950. Mizoguchi, a young man who was born with a stutter, was ridiculed by his classmates and the woman he loved, but his spiritual world was extremely fertile. After coming to the Golden Pavilion from a poor country to become a monk, he was obsessed with the beauty of the Golden Pavilion all day long, imagining the magnificent scene of dying together with the Golden Pavilion in the flames of war. However, this wish ultimately came to nothing. In despair, he resolutely burned the Golden Temple to the ground. It embodies Mishima's so-called "beauty of destruction".
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