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WORKS: Animals Head for Home (Kemonotachi wa kokyō wo mezasu); The Ark Sakura (Hakobune Sakura maru); “Beyond the Curve” (Kābu no mukō); characters’ names in; Collection of Anonymous Poems (Mumei shishū); The Face of Another (Tanin no kao); Friends (Tomodachi); “Fruit of the Apple,”; “The Intruders” (Chinnyūsha); Kangaroo Notebook (Kangarū nōto); The Little Elephant Is Dead (Kozō wa shinda); meanings in, unspoken; novels, reception of; plays; “The Red Cocoon” (Akai mayu); The Ruined Map (Moetsukita chizu); subjects of; on travels in Eastern Europe; The Uniform (Seifuku); “The Wall; The Crime of S. Karma” (Kabe; S. Karuma shi no hanzai); The Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna),
Abe Studio
After the Banquet (Utage no ato, Mishima)
Akutagawa Prize
Amateur Club (Amachua kurabu, Tanizaki)
Animals Head for Home (Kemonotachi wa kokyō wo mezasu, Abe)
Arita Hachirō
Ark Sakura, The (Hakobune Sakura maru, Abe)
Arrowroot (Yoshino kuzu, Tanizaki)
Asahi shimbun (newspaper)
Asakusa Crimson Gang, The (Asakusa kurenai dan, Kawabata)
authors, postwar groups of
Basques
beauty. See also ugliness
“Beyond the Curve” (Kābu no mukō, Abe)
Blind Man’s Tale, A (Mōmoku monogatari, Tanizaki)
Blue Period, The (Ao no jidai, Mishima)
“Boy Prodigy, The” (Shindō, Tanizaki)
Buddhism
Bunraku puppet theater
bushidō (way of the warrior)
Candau, Sauveur Antoine
cherry blossoms
“Children” (Shōnen, Tanizaki)
Collection of Anonymous Poems (Mumei shishū, Abe)
Communist Party
Confessions of a Mask (Kamen no kokuhaku, Mishima)
creoles (languages)
“Crystal Fantasies” (Suishō gensō, Kawabata)
culture, nationalism and
Dazai Osamu
Decay of the Angel, The (Tennin Gosui, Mishima)
deer-frightener (shishi-odoshi)
Diary of a Mad Old Man (Fūten rōjinnikki, Tanizaki)
“Diary of a Sixteen-Year-Old” (Jūroku sai no nikki, Kawabata)
Drunk as a Lord (Yotte Sōrō, Shiba)
Eguchi (fictional character)
emperor, as a god
epics
Essays in Idleness (Tsurezure-gusa, Kenkō)
Face of Another, The (Tanin no kao, Abe)
Fall of the House of Suzaku, The (Suzaku-ke no metsubō, Mishima)
Fighting Harada
Francis Xavier (saint)
Friends (Tomodachi, Abe)
“Fruit of the Apple” (Abe)
Fukuda Tsuneari
“German Spy, The” (Dokutan, Tanizaki)
go (game)
Gogo no eikō (The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, Mishima)
Golden Pavilion (Kinkaku)
Great Cultural Revolution (China)
Great Earthquake (1923)
Great Mirror, The (Ōkagami, historical fiction)
Greek plays
Hammarskjöld, Dag
Hayashi Yōken
Heijō
Hirohito (emperor)
historical ...