Question
One of this author’s characters tries to start a relationship with his friend’s sister, whose piano playing mesmerized him when she was 17. At the start of a novel by this author, adults fear a child is trying to trick them by claiming to remember the time of his birth. The title concept of a novel by this author collapses due to a man with a peony tattoo on his chest. Guido Reni's painting (*) Saint Sebastian exemplifies one of this author's narrators' obsession with dying young men. At the end of a novel by this author, Mizoguchi decides to live after failing to burn down a temple. For 10 points, what author wrote about the repressed Kochan in Confessions of a Mask and also wrote The Temple of the Golden Pavilion? ■END■
ANSWER: Yukio Mishima [or Kimitake Hiraoka; accept names in either order]
<Literature - World Literature - Long Fiction>
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Summary
Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
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2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 42 | 95% | 2% | 0% | 102.20 |