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Description
Though best known for his novels, Yukio Mishima published more than sixty plays, almost all of which were produced during his lifetime. Among them are kabuki plays and others inspired by No dramas -two types used in classical Japanese theater. Of play-writing Mishima once observed, "I started... read more
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The Rokumeikan (the Deer Cry Pavilion), from which this play gets its title, is a British-designed Renaissance-style social center built by the Japanese government in 1883 for the explicit purpose of encouraging social intercourse between foreign dignitaries and members of the Japanese aristocracy.
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- Yukio Mishima (Author)
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