The protagonist repeats the koan "If you meet the Buddha in the road, kill him" after becoming an acolyte of the title structure.
One character in this novel tells a lengthy story about losing his virginity to a devout old woman before faking a fall in front of a "beauty of the first water." The protagonist of this novel is made to trample on the stomach of a pregnant woman by an American soldier, and watches a woman squirting breast milk into a cup during a tea ceremony. After the stuttering protagonist starts attending university, he befriends the club-footed Kashiwagi. The protagonist repeats the koan "If you meet the Buddha in the road, kill him" after becoming an acolyte of the title structure. For 10 points, name this novel in which Mizoguchi burns down the beautiful title structure, a work by Yukio Mishima.
One character in this novel tells a lengthy story about losing his virginity to a devout old woman before faking a fall in front of a "beauty of the first water.
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion [or Kinkaku-ji]