hello, everyone.
i'm currently translating a novel by mishima yukio entitled "utsukushii hoshi" (the beautiful star), which was published in 1962. in the novel, the main character reads a book called "enban no furusato", which he says was published in london, and contains a description of the thomas mantell incident. the title would be translated something like "the origin of saucers" or "the birthplace of saucers" or "the native place of saucers", or perhaps even "where saucers come from".. the reason i'm posting this thread is because i'm trying to determine the actual title of this book, which i am assuming is an actual book and not something mishima made up. i've searched for the japanese title and various possible english titles but to no avail. if anyone has an idea of what this book might be (it must have been written between 1948 and 1962 and published in london, as aforementioned), please let me know. thanks very much.
i'm currently translating a novel by mishima yukio entitled "utsukushii hoshi" (the beautiful star), which was published in 1962. in the novel, the main character reads a book called "enban no furusato", which he says was published in london, and contains a description of the thomas mantell incident. the title would be translated something like "the origin of saucers" or "the birthplace of saucers" or "the native place of saucers", or perhaps even "where saucers come from".. the reason i'm posting this thread is because i'm trying to determine the actual title of this book, which i am assuming is an actual book and not something mishima made up. i've searched for the japanese title and various possible english titles but to no avail. if anyone has an idea of what this book might be (it must have been written between 1948 and 1962 and published in london, as aforementioned), please let me know. thanks very much.