# Quote — Yukio Mishima, The Temple of Dawn

> 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.

- Author: [Yukio Mishima](https://www.leafyquotes.com/yukio-mishima.md)
- Book: [The Temple of Dawn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/yukio-mishima/the-temple-of-dawn.md)
- Page: 21
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