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Work #342 · Mid

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Yukio Mishima
1956 · Japanese
Novel · 20th-century Japanese literature / aestheticist nihilism

The fictional account of the 1950 burning of Kinkakuji — Mishima's 1956 novel of beauty, obsession, destruction

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Attribute The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Mid)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Singular
Observer · Metaphysical Agency None
Observer · Moral Authority Experience
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Narrative time leading to destruction.

Space

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Kyoto and Kinkakuji.

Matter

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Embodied temple and protagonist.

Observer

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Obsessive protagonist.

Energy

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Aesthetic obsession and destructive culmination.

Information

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Fictionalised historical event.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Mishima's 1970 ritual suicide inflects all subsequent readings.