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1925 - Born in the Yotsuya district of Tokyo on the 14th of January.
1940 - He was incredibly prolific, a writer of novels, short stories, plays and political and literary criticism.
1947 - He worked as an official in the government's Finance Ministry.
1949 - Confessions of a Mask.
1952 - His personal life got just as much attention as his writing: a trip to Greece Mishima began a strict regimen of body-building, and he became keen on photographing his chiseled physique in poses reminiscent of the death of the Christian martyr St. Sebastian.
1956 - Kinkakuji The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
1965 - His most famous books include Gogo no eiko as The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea.
- The Sea of Fertility.
1968 - Founded Shield Society.
- Sea of Fertility.
1970 - He is one of the most widely-read Japanese authors of the 20th century, due in part to his dramatic suicide.
- Died on the 25th of November, he delivered the complete manuscript of the last work in his tetralogy, then proceeded with four followers to the headquarters of the Japanese Self-Defense Force, where he read a "manifesto" and then committed seppuku, after which one of his compatriots chopped his head off.
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- "If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death? No death may be called futile."
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Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima (Paperback - Apr 14, 1990) The first novel of Mishima's landmark tetralogy, The Sea of fertilitySpring Snow is set in Tokyo in 1912, when the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima (Paperback - Oct 4, 1994) Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. A young fisherman is entranced at the sight of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima (Paperback - Apr 14, 1990) The chronicle of a conspiracy and a novel about the roots and nature of Japanese fanaticism in the years that led to war--an era marked by depression, social change and political violence...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Patriotism - Criterion Collection (DVD) Playwright and novelist Yukio Mishima predicted his own suicide with this ravishing short feature, his only foray into filmmaking yet directed with the expressiveness and confidence of a true cinema... Not yet released |
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Afraid to Die (DVD) Legendary/notorious Japanese novelist and cultural icon Yukio Mishima makes a rare screen appearance as Takeo, a young yakuza who reluctantly leaves prison to re-enter a dizzying world of kidnappings... |
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