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23. The Anti-Vietnam War Movement24. Sun and Steel; 25. The Shield Society, Counterrevolution; 26. The Yakuza; 27. Wang Yangming: "To know is to act"; 28. The Constitution; 29. Hailstones, Ghouls, Golden Death; 30. Toward Ichigaya; 31. The Seppuku; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.;""Yukio Mishima (b. 1925) was a brilliant writer and intellectual whose relentless obsession with beauty, purity, and patriotism ended in his astonishing self-disembowelment and decapitation in downtown Tokyo in 1970. Nominated for the Nobel Prize, Mishima was the best-known novelist of his time (works like Confessions of a Mask and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion are still in print in English), and his legacy--his persona--is still honored and puzzled over. Who was Yukio Mishima really? This, the first full biography to appear in English in almost forty years, traces Mishima's trajectory from a sickly boy named Kimitake Hiraoka to a hard-bodied student of martial arts. In detail it examines his family life, the wartime years, and his emergence, then fame, as a writer and advocate for traditional values. Revealed here are all the personalities and conflicts and sometimes petty backbiting that shape

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Author

Inose, Naoki;Mishima, yukio;Mishima, Yukio;Sato, Hiroaki

Publisher

Stone Bridge Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781611720082

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

4.07 / 5 (37 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14