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| 11/25/1970 |
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Yukio Mishima's Seppuku Aesthetics
On this day in 1970 Yukio Mishima committed seppuku (ritual suicide, also known as hara-kiri). Mishima was a three-time Nobel nominee, and his dozen novels made him the most famous and translated Japanese writer of his generation. His spectacularly staged death was front-page news around the world, and it is still being analyzed for what it says about him, or his fiction, or Japan. |
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Confessions of a Mask
fiction |
Correspondencia Kawabata-Mishima
by Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima
letters |
Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories
short stories |
Five Modern Noh Plays
by Yukio Mishima, Donald Keene (Translator)
drama |
Forbidden Colours
fiction |
Patriotism
fiction |
Runaway Horses (Sea of Fertility, 2)
fiction |
Silk and Insight
fiction |
Spring Snow (Sea of Fertility, 1)
fiction |
The Decay of the Angel (Sea of Fertility, 4)
fiction |
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea
fiction |
The Sound of Waves
fiction |
The Temple of Dawn (Sea of Fertility, 3)
fiction |
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
fiction |
The Way of the Samurai: Yukio Mishima on Hagakure in Modern Life
non-fiction |
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Article: "I Cut Off the Head of Yukio Mishima"
Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Life and Letters brings this interesting piece about a writer's dogged search to interview the man who cut off the head of Yukio Mishima.
"Why did I want to go to Japan to interview, face-to-face, Hiroyasu Koga, the man who, in 1970, cut off the head of Yukio Mishima, the novelist expected to win the Nobel Prize? It's important to understand that the well-known beheading incident was not only consensual, but orchestrated in exquisite detail by Mishima himself. So what we really have here is not so much an act of murder as an act of influence -- with the emphasis on act. For 30 years anyone familiar with this event has said the same thing -- it was a homosexual melodrama that got a little out of hand. If anything more is said, it's usually about how Mishima was raised by his grandmother as a girl, how she shielded him from violent movies and plays, which led, by some sort of compensation, to an over fascination with blood, swords, and samurai...." |  | City Honors School
Find a dozen student essays about The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea. Includes commentary on stylistic technique, Japan and the West, symbolism and the motif of the sea, theme, existentialist perspectives, and more. | | The Yukio Mishima Cyber Museum
Find bibliography, information about the Yukio Mishima Museum (Bungakukan), and an extensive online chronological timeline of events in the Mishima's life, categorized under the following subjects:
1925 - 1940 : Infancy and Youth
1941 - 1945 : The Adlescence in War-time
1946 - 1951 : The Time of Confessions of a Mask
1952 - 1957 : The Time of The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
1958 - 1964 : At the Time of Kyoko's House
1965 - 1970 : At the Time of The Sea of Fertility
1971 - 1998 : The Post-Mishima Days | | The Yukio Mishima Web Page
A fan site features a biography and essays offering analysis and criticism of such works as:
Confessions of a Mask
Sun and Steel
Spring Snow
Runaway Horses
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion | |
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