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<div><p>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 <I>Confessions of a Mask</I> and <I>The Temple of the Golden Pavilion</I> are still in print in English), and his legacy&#8212;his <I>persona</I>&#8212;is still honored and puzzled over.</P> <p>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 shaped the culture of postwar literary Japan.</P> <p>Working entirely from primary sources and material unavailable to other biographers, author Naoki Inose and translator Hiroaki Sato together have produced a monumental work that covers much new g

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Author

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

Publisher

Stone Bridge Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781611725247

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Biography, Novelists, Poets & Playwrights

Rating

4.07 / 5 (37 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14