Kyōko no Ie
Kyōko no Ie (鏡子の家) ("Kyoko's House") is a 1959 novel by the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.
The book tells the interconnected stories of four young men who represent different facets of the author's personality. His athletic side appears as a boxer, his artistic side as a painter, his narcissistic, performing side as an actor and his secretive, nihilistic side as a businessman who goes through the motions of living a normal life while practicing "absolute contempt for reality".
Mishima's biographer and translator, John Nathan, has called Kyōko no Ie "an unsettling, even a terrifying book",[1] at least partly because it seems prophetic in its anticipation of developments in Mishima's own life: the boxer takes up right-wing politics and the actor becomes involved in a sado-masochistic sexual relationship which ends in double suicide for himself and his lover.
The story of Osamu, the actor in Kyōko no Ie, was one of three Mishima works adapted by Paul Schrader for his film Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters. Although the novel has not been translated into English, Schrader used it because his original choice, Forbidden Colors, was vetoed by Mishima's widow.[2]
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- Confessions of a Mask (1949)
- Thirst for Love (1950)
- Forbidden Colors (1951, 1953)
- Death in Midsummer and Other Stories (1952)
- The Sound of Waves (1954)
- The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1956)
- Kyoko's House (1959)
- After the Banquet (1960)
- The Frolic of the Beasts (1961)
- The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1963)
- The School of Flesh (1964)
- Silk and Insight (1964)
- Acts of Worship (1965)
- Sun and Steel (1968)
- Life for Sale (1968)
- The Sea of Fertility
- Spring Snow (1969)
- Runaway Horses (1969)
- The Temple of Dawn (1970)
- The Decay of the Angel (1971)
- "Death in Midsummer" (1952)
- "Patriotism" (1960)
- "Star" (1960)
- Five Modern Noh Plays (1950–1955)
- The Lady Aoi (1954)
- Iwashi Uri Koi Hikiami (1954)
- Rokumeikan (1956)
- Madame de Sade (1965)
- My Friend Hitler (1968)
- Patriotism (1966)
- The Moon in the Water (1979)
- Mishima: A Vision of the Void (1981)
- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
- 11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate (2012)
- Persona: A Biography of Yukio Mishima (2012)
- Tatenokai
- Yukio Mishima Prize
- The Lady Aoi (Bahram Beyzai production)