Yukio Mishima (1925–1970)
Author of The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
About the Author
Yukio Mishima, the pseudonym for Hiraoka Kimitake, was born in Tokyo in 1925. His work covers many styles: poetry, essays, modern Kabuki ja Noh drama, and novels. Among his masterpieces are The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, and the four-volume novel Sea of Fertility, which outlines the Japanese show more experience in the 20th century. Each of the four volumes in this series has a distinct title--Spring Snow, Runaway Horses, The Temple of Dawn, and Five Signs of a God's Decay--and they were published over a six-year period, from 1965-1970. Mishima's plays include Tenth Day Chrysanthemum, and the Kabuki piece The Moon Like a Drawn Bow. Although Mishima was been nominated three times for the Nobel Prize for Literature, he never received it. Nevertheless, he is considered by many critics as one of the most important Japanese novelists of the 20th century. Yukio Mishima died by his own hand in 1970, committing seppuku (ritual disembowelment). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Series
Works by Yukio Mishima
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea / The Temple of the Golden Pavilion / Confessions of a Mask (1985) 79 copies
L' Expressionnisme 7 copies
Le palais des fetes: Drame en quatre actes (Collection UNESCO d'oeuvres representatives) (French Edition) (1983) 6 copies
頭文字 2 copies
O Tumulto das Ondas 2 copies
獅子・孔雀 2 copies
Amazing Oceans 2 copies
Sed de amor & El marino que perdió la gracia del mar & El rumor del oleaje/ Thirsty of Love & The Marine who lost the… (2009) 2 copies
CAVALOS EM FUGA 2 copies
The lady Aoi 2 copies
Tri priče o ljubavi i smrti 1 copy
Hanjo 1 copy
Kantan 1 copy
Aya no tsuzumi 1 copy
Towing after-afternoon thirst-Temple of the Golden Pavilion, sea roar, feast of confession, the love of Japanese… (1984) 1 copy
A Ruína do Anjo 1 copy
豊饒の海 1 春の雪 (新潮文庫) 1 copy
More plodnosti 1-4 1 copy
Il pazzo morire 1 copy
Melegin rys 1 copy
Melegin Çürüyüsü 1 copy
Alti agdas No Oyunu 1 copy
Past banketti : romaan 1 copy
Nieve de primavera 1 copy
L perla y otros cuentos 1 copy
Cuentos completos 1 copy
Temple Golden Pavilion 1 copy
La Corrupción de un Ángel 1 copy
Na uwięzi. Ballada o miłości 1 copy
Chieu Hom Lo Chuyen 1 copy
Nap és Vas 1 copy
三島由紀夫全集―決定版 (37) 1 copy
By Yukio Mishima - The Decay of the Angel (Sea of Fertility, Book 4) (Reissue) (1990-04-29) [Paperback] (1990) 1 copy
Chiều hôm lỡ chuyến 1 copy
Chết Giữa Mùa Hè 1 copy
Yaz ortasında ölüm 1 copy
El Rumor del Oleaje 1 copy
A RUÍNA DO ANJO 1 copy
春雪 (Chinese Edition) 1 copy
Act of Worship [long story] 1 copy
Dupa banchet 1 copy
Leben zu verkaufen 1 copy
Şölenden Sonra 1 copy
The Pearl 1 copy
Fountains in the Rain 1 copy
The Boy Who Wrote Poetry 1 copy
Kamen kokuhaku (仮面の告白) 1 copy
Shósetsuka no kyúka (小説家の休暇) 1 copy
サド侯爵夫人・わが友ヒットラー (新潮文庫) 1 copy
Nyanyian Laut 1 copy
決定版 三島由紀夫全集〈33〉評論(8) 1 copy
決定版 三島由紀夫全集〈32〉評論(7) 1 copy
決定版 三島由紀夫全集〈30〉評論(5) 1 copy
決定版 三島由紀夫全集〈28〉評論(3) 1 copy
決定版 三島由紀夫全集〈27〉評論(2) 1 copy
決定版 三島由紀夫全集〈23〉戯曲(3) 1 copy
決定版 三島由紀夫全集〈21〉戯曲(1) 1 copy
The choice Yukio Mishima Complete Works short stories (6) (2002) ISBN: 4106425602 [Japanese Import] (2002) 1 copy
The choice Yukio Mishima Complete Works short stories (4) (2002) ISBN: 4106425580 [Japanese Import] 1 copy
The choice Yukio Mishima Complete Works short stories (3) (2002) ISBN: 4106425572 [Japanese Import] 1 copy
The choice Yukio Mishima Complete Works short story (2) (2002) ISBN: 4106425564 [Japanese Import] 1 copy
The choice Yukio Mishima Complete Works short story (1) (2002) ISBN: 4106425556 [Japanese Import] 1 copy
The choice Yukio Mishima Complete Works novels (12) (2001) ISBN: 4106425521 [Japanese Import] 1 copy
The choice Yukio Mishima Complete Works novels (10) (2001) ISBN: 4106425505 [Japanese Import] 1 copy
The choice Yukio Mishima Complete Works novel (3) (2001) ISBN: 4106425432 [Japanese Import] (2001) 1 copy
The choice Yukio Mishima Complete Works novel (2) (2001) ISBN: 4106425424 [Japanese Import] (2001) 1 copy
Mikumano mōde 1 copy
Associated Works
Other Voices, Other Vistas: Short Stories from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America (1992) — Contributor — 183 copies
The New Mystery: The International Association of Crime Writers' Essential Crime Writing of the Late 20th Century (1993) — Contributor — 60 copies
The Graphic Canon of Crime & Mystery, Vol. 2: From Salome to Edgar Allan Poe to The Silence of the Lambs (2021) — Contributor — 14 copies
Meesters der vertelkunst : zevenenderdig verhalen uit de moderne wereldliteratuur (1975) — Contributor — 2 copies
リテラリーゴシック・イン・ジャパン 文学的ゴシック作品選 — Contributor — 1 copy
三島由紀夫の死―高校生の発言 1 copy
新潮 1971年 02 月号 [雑誌] 三島由紀夫追悼特集 — Contributor — 1 copy
バージンラブ — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- 三島由紀夫
- Other names
- Hiraoka, Kimitake (English real name)
Shobuin Bunkan Koi Koji (kaimyo) - Birthdate
- 1925-01-14
- Date of death
- 1970-11-25
- Burial location
- Tama Reien, Tama-cho, Fuchu City, Tokyo, Japan
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Japan
- Country (for map)
- Japan
- Birthplace
- Tokyo, Japan
- Place of death
- Tokyo, Japan
- Cause of death
- seppuku
- Places of residence
- Tokyo, Japan
- Education
- Gakushuin
University of Tokyo (LLB | 1947 | German Law) - Occupations
- novelist
playwright
actor
translator
poet
stage director (show all 8)
stage designer
short-story writer - Relationships
- Sugiyama, Yoko (wife)
Tomita, Noriko (daughter)
Hiraoka, Iichiro (son)
Hiraoka, Azusa (father)
Hiraoka, Shizue (mother)
Hiraoka, Mitsuko (sister) (show all 17)
Hiraoka, Chiyuki (brother)
Kawabata, Yasunari (patron)
Ishihara, Shintarō (friend)
Ishikawa, Jun (acquaintance)
Mayuzumi, Toshiro (collaborator)
Abe, Kobo (friend)
Azuma, Fumihiko (friend)
Weatherby, Meredith (friend, translator)
Morris, Ivan (friend, translator)
Stokes, Henry Scott (friend)
Nathan, John (friend, translator) - Organizations
- Shirakabaha (1939)
Ministry of Finance, Banking Bureau, National Savings Section (1948)
Hachi no Ki Kai / the Potted Cherry Tree Club
Bungakuza theatre company
Japan Self-Defense Forces
Tatenokai (show all 7)
Nissay Theatre - Awards and honors
- Emperor's Award (1944)
Iaido Shodan / 1st Dan (1967)
AJKF Kendo Godan / 5th Dan (1968)
Participant in the 1st World Kendo Championships (1970) - Agent
- Audrey Wood (New York)
- Short biography
- Three-time winner of the Yomiuri Prize (1956 in literature, 1958 and 1961 in drama), winner of the Shinchosha Prize (1954), the Kunio Kishida Award (1956), the Mainichi Art Award (1964), and the Ministry of Education's Arts Festival Award (1965), "Mishima Yukio was probably the most prodigiously endowed Japanese writer of the twentieth century. Although he was only forty-five when he died, under spectacular circumstances that brought him worldwide fame, he had already completed a more voluminous oeuvre than most writers who live twice that long. His writings extended to every genre. Although he was best known as a novelist, he excelled also as a short-story writer. His works of fiction ranged from the philosophic to the farcical; he could write in whatever style was appropriate to each. He published numerous essays on literary, political, cultural and purely journalistic topics. He was also the most successful playwright of his generation." (Donald Keene. “Forward: Mishima’s Kabuki Plays” in “Mishima on Stage.” Ed. Laurence Kominz. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies 2007, viii–x.)
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The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea (Bowie's Top 100) in 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (April 2016)
Mishima: The Decay of the Angel. The Sea of Fertility finally ends. in Le Salon Littéraire du Peuple pour le Peuple (October 2013)
NEW MISHIMA THREAD in Le Salon Littéraire du Peuple pour le Peuple (August 2013)
Mishima, tetralogy, by god, the whole fucking thing! in Le Salon Littéraire du Peuple pour le Peuple (May 2013)
Mishima : The Samurai ethic and modern Japan in Author Theme Reads (January 2013)
Mishima : The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea in Author Theme Reads (October 2012)
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima in Author Theme Reads (October 2012)
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