2020
Search results
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. Mishima is considered one of the most important post-war stylists of the Japanese language.
The figure is Yukio Mishima, real name Kimitake Hiraoka. 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...
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- (224.5K)
- November 25, 1970
- January 14, 1925
- The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima, John Nathan (Translator)
- Confessions of a Mask.
- Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
- The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima, Ivan Morris (Translation)
Oct 2, 2020 · Fifty years ago, Mishima Yukio died dramatically, killing himself by after his calls to reform Japan’s postwar Constitution failed to inspire Self-Defense Forces to rise up at a base in Tokyo.
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...
Sep 27, 2021 · Learn about the life and death of Yukio Mishima, a renowned Japanese writer who became a political extremist and committed ritual suicide after a failed coup attempt. Discover his childhood, literary career, political views, and the Shield Society, his private militia.
