Kyoto

3 books placed in Kyoto on the Literary Atlas map of world literature.

Books placed here

The Pillow Book
Sei Shōnagon · c. 1002
The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu · 1010s

More books placed here

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion Yukio Mishima · 1956

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