Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫) was the pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka (平岡 公威), a Japanese author, poet and playwright, also remembered for his ritual suicide by seppuku.
At age six, Mishima enrolled in elite Peers School (Gakushuin 学習院). At 12, Mishima began to write his first stories. He read voraciously the works of Oscar Wilde, Rainer Maria Rilke and numerous classic Japanese authors. After six years at school, he became the youngest member of the editorial board in its literary society. Mishima was attracted to the works of Tachihara Michizō, which in turn created an appreciation for the classical form of the waka. Mishima's first published works included waka poetry, before he turned his attention to prose.
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Fiction, Japan, fiction, Fiction, general, Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author), Japanese fiction, Translations into English, History and criticism, Japanese Authors, Conduct of life, Japanese literature, Bushido, Criticism and interpretation, Biography, Drama, Fiction, short stories (single author), Littérature japonaise, Correspondence, Gay youth, Japanese Novelists, Japanese drama, Japanese language, Man-woman relationships, Motion pictures, Near and far eastern drama (dramatic works by one author), PsychologyPeople
Yukio Mishima (1925-1970), Tsunetomo Yamamoto (1659-1719), Yukio Mishima, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Donald Keene, Fusao Hayashi (1903-1975), Georges Bataille (1897-1962), Kochan, Renée Sade marquise de (d. 1810), Sade marquise de (1740-1810), Tametomo Minamoto (1139-1170), Tsunemoto Yamatomo (1659-1719), Utaemon Nakamura (1917-2001), Yukio Mishima (1925-1970,)Time
20th century, Shōwa period, 1926-1989, 1945-1989, 1932, 1940s, 1945-, 20e siècle, February Incident, 1936 (February 26), Taishō period, 1912-1926, To 794, xian daiID Numbers
- OLID: OL220942A
- ISNI: 0000000121496808
- VIAF: 27068909
- Wikidata: Q134456
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q134456
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- Yukio Mishima; 平岡公威
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