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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.
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").
Oct 2, 2020 · Fifty years ago, Mishima Yukio died dramatically, killing himself by seppuku after his calls to reform Japan’s postwar Constitution failed to inspire Self-Defense Forces to rise up at a base in...
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...
Jun 21, 2024 · Yukio Mishima. (1925—1970) Japanese writer. Quick Reference. 1925–1970) Japanese novelist, whose obsession with the loss of traditional Japanese military values led to his suicide.
