Tanizaki Yu's 'The Two Acolytes'

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The Two Acolytes short story by Tanizaki Jun’ichirō involved in religious themes its start off with an interesting plot. Its talk about two young monk journey going to a different direction. One of the monk would leave to go to the scared mountain to look for life devoted to earth passion while the other side remind faithful to his promise. On the other hand, the other monk was hesitated to go explore the outside world. The author makes his reader to see the departure as a privileges in life of religion and observes the pleasure of the floating world. The two monk where interested in religious training on Mt. Hiei where they both have to face their density either to remain on the holy mountain or explore the outside world with happiness and