# The Temple of Dawn

- Author: [Yukio Mishima](https://www.leafyquotes.com/yukio-mishima.md)
- Quotes: 1
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/yukio-mishima/the-temple-of-dawn

## Quotes

> Japan was to be married, not to Hitler, but to the German forests; not to Mussolini, but to the Roman pantheon. It was a pact joining German, Roman, and Japanese mythology: a friendship among the beautiful, masculine, pagan gods of East and West.

p. 21 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/yukio-mishima/the-temple-of-dawn/japan-was-to-be-married.md)