“Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.”
Yukio Mishima book Forbidden Colors
Source: Forbidden Colors
Quotes from bookForbidden Colors
Yukio MishimaOriginal title 禁色 (Japanese, 1953)
Forbidden Colors is a 1951 novel by the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, translated into English in 1968. The name kinjiki is a euphemism for homosexuality. The kanji 禁 means "forbidden" and 色 in this case means "erotic love", although it can also mean "color". The word "kinjiki" also means colors that were forbidden to be worn by people of various ranks in the Japanese court. It describes a marriage of a gay man to a young woman. Like Mishima's earlier novel Confessions of a Mask, it is generally considered somewhat autobiographical.
