The Temple of Dawn

The Temple of Dawn

First edition (Japanese)
Author	Yukio Mishima
Original title	Akatsuki no tera (暁の寺)
Translator	E. Dale Saunders & Cecilia Segawa Seigle
Language	Japanese
Series	The Sea of Fertility
Publisher	Shinchosha (orig.) & Alfred A. Knopf (Eng. trans.)
Publication date	1970
Publication place	Japan
Published in English	Oct 1973
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN	0-394-46614-4 (Eng. trans. first edition, hardback)
OCLC	628303
Dewey Decimal	895.6/3/5
LC Class	PZ3.M6878 Se vol. 3 PL833.I7
Preceded by	Runaway Horses
Followed by	The Decay of the Angel

The Temple of Dawn (暁の寺, Akatsuki no tera) is the third novel in the Sea of Fertility tetralogy by the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. For this as for the other novels in the series, Mishima travelled to various places to conduct research, including Wat Arun in Bangkok, Thailand.^[1]