And a charming young man, who claims to be from Venus too, tempts daughter Akiko away from the family. The novel is loosely based on the burning of the Reliquary (or Golden Pavilion) of Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto by a young Buddhist acolyte in 1950. But there are other extra-terrestrials out there, ones who do not look so kindly on the flaws and foibles of humans. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (, Kinkaku-ji) is a novel by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima.It was published in 1956 and translated into English by Ivan Morris in 1959. Beautiful Star is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was the novel Mishima considered to be his masterpiece. After all, humans may be terribly flawed, but aren't they worth saving? He sends out a coded message in the newspaper to find other aliens. He writes letters to Khrushchev, trying to warn everyone he can of the terrible threat. Already seen as oddballs in their small Japanese town in the 1960s, this extra-terrestrial knowledge brings them closer together they climb mountains to wait for UFOs, study at home together and regard their human neighbours with a kindly benevolence.īut Father, Juichiro, is worried about the bomb. Father from Mars, mother from Jupiter, son from Mercury and daughter from Venus. Each of them hails from a different planet. And a charming young man, who claims to be from Venus too, tempts daughter Akiko away from the family.The Osugi family have come to a realization. But there are other extra-terrestrials out there, ones who do not look so kindly on the flaws and foibles of humans. After all, humans may be terribly flawed, but aren't they worth saving? He sends out a coded message in the newspaper to find other aliens. Witty and satirical, this cosmological fable from the great Japanese author finds an extra-terrestrial family living in 1960s.

Each of them hails from a different planet. awash with dark humour and scenes of intense beauty Financial Times One of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century New Yorker Beautiful Star is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was considered by Mishima to be one of his very best books. The Osugi family have come to a realization. The novel Mishima considered to be his masterpiece- a tale of family, nuclear war, love and UFOs.

Beautiful star by yukio mishima