Yukio Mishima
- In this Japanese name, the family name is Mishima.
Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value).[1] was a Japanese writer, poet, playwright, actor and film director.[2] One of his close friends was Yasunari Kawabata. On November 25, 1970, he tried to make a coup d'état for military force but in vain and killed himself via seppuku.
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Early life
Mishima studied at the elite Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value)..[2] When he was child, he stuttered.
In 1941, Mishima wrote his first notable story. In Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value)., he described a feeling that his ancestors lived within him.
Mishima graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1947.
Career
Mishima worked in the Japanese Ministry of Finance. At the same time, he was writing.[3]
In 1949, he published his first major novel, Confessions of a mask.[2]
Selected works
In a summary based on writings by and about Yukio Mishima, OCLC/WorldCat lists roughly 1,700+ works in 4,400+ publications in 40+ languages and 56,600+ library holdings.[4]
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- Confessions of a mask, 1949
- The sound of waves, 1952
- The temple of the golden pavilion by Yukio Mishima, 1956
- The sailor who fell from grace with the sea, 1959
- After the banquet, 1960
- Death in midsummer, and other stories, 1966
- Spring snow, 1968
- Runaway horses, 1969
- The temple of dawn, 1969
- The decay of the angel, 1971
Yukio Mishima Media
Mishima in his childhood (April 1931, at the age of 6)
Mishima's self-portrait drawn in junior high school
Mishima at age 19, with his sister at age 16 (on 9 September 1944)
Mishima with his cat("Asahi Graph" 12 May 1948 issue). He was known as a cat lover.
Mishima aged 28(in January 1953)
Yukio Mishima (lower) with Shintaro Ishihara in 1956 (at the roof of the Bungeishunjū Building in Ginza 6-chome)
Mishima poses for a photograph, 1961.
Mishima at age 30 in his garden (an autumn day in 1955)
Mishima delivering his speech on the balcony
References
- ↑ Yukio Mishima was the writer's name used by Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Mishima Yukio" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 640.
- ↑ Shabecoff, Philip. "Mishima: A Man Torn Between Two Worlds," New York Times. November 26, 1970; retrieved 2012-6-8.
- ↑ WorldCat Identities: Mishima, Yukio 1925-1970; retrieved 2012-6-8.
Other websites
Media related to Yukio Mishima at Wikimedia Commons
- Books and Writers bio Archived 2004-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
- Mishima chronology, with links