The Village Voice: Yukio Mishima, A Life in Four Chapters, and Countless Contradictions
The Japanese have a storied tradition of writer suicides, but the reams of foreshadowing and grand-gesture media spectacle of Yukio Mishima’s outro set something of a gold standard. On November 25, ...
The story “From the Wilderness” by Yukio Mishima was written and published in Japanese in 1966, but wasn’t translated into English until now. It will be included in a new collection, “Voices of the ...
The Conversation: Genius, madman or both? Japanese literary icon Yukio Mishima died leading a coup. He would have been 100 today
“Human life is limited, but I would like to live forever,” read the note Yukio Mishima left on his desk shortly before he left home for the final time. Mishima, who would have turned 100 today, often ...
Genius, madman or both? Japanese literary icon Yukio Mishima died leading a coup. He would have been 100 today
Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫 Mishima Yukio) is the pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka (平岡 公威 Hiraoka Kimitake, a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, and film director. Mishima is considered one of the most ...
I once owned a photograph of Yukio Mishima squatting in the snow, dressed in nothing but a skimpy white loincloth, brandishing a long samurai sword. Mishima’s torso is buffed from years of ...