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Yukio Mishima [a] ( 三島 由紀夫, Mishima Yukio), born Kimitake Hiraoka ( 平岡 公威, Hiraoka Kimitake, 14 January 1925 – 25 November 1970), was a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, nationalist, and founder of the Tatenokai (楯の会, "Shield Society").
Nov 25, 2020 · He was Japan’s most famous living novelist when, on 25 November 1970, he went to an army base in Tokyo, kidnapped the commander, had him assemble the garrison, then tried to start...
May 10, 2024 · Mishima Yukio (born January 14, 1925, Tokyo, Japan—died November 25, 1970, Tokyo) was a prolific writer who is regarded by many critics as the most important Japanese novelist of the 20th century. Mishima was the son of a high civil servant and attended the aristocratic Peers School in Tokyo.
Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫) was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University’s School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944 and he established himself as a major author with Confessions of a Mask (1949).
Jan 11, 2021 · Japanese writer Yukio Mishima has long been a favorite of the international press. In a 1966 edition of Life magazine, he was called “Japan’s Dynamo of Letters” and “the Japanese Hemingway.”...
Nov 2, 2020 · Half a century has passed since the demise of Mishima Yukio, for many decades the world’s best-known Japanese literary author. By number of translated book titles, he is far ahead of...
Nov 20, 2020 · Yukio Mishima is interviewed at his home in Tokyo's Minamimagome district in this December 1968 file photo. (Mainichi) Nietzsche. By Damian Flanagan. Toward the end of the World War II, a...
Yukio Mishima ( 三島 由紀夫, Mishima Yukio), born Kimitake Hiraoka ( 平岡 公威, Hiraoka Kimitake, 14 January 1925 – 25 November 1970), was a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, nationalist, and founder of the Tatenokai (楯の会, "Shield Society").
Dec 3, 2020 · Mishima was the author of 34 limpid novels, more than 70 plays and scores of lighter tales for a mass market. He was Japan’s first media supasuta (superstar). He acted in films and posed...
Yukio Mishima was born into a samurai family and imbued with the code of complete control over mind and body, and loyalty to the Emperor – the same code that produced the austerity and self-sacrifice of Zen. He wrote countless short stories and thirty-three plays, in some of which he acted.
