Rogue Messiahs: Tales of Self-Proclaimed Saviors by Colin Wilson (Mishima profiled in context of phenomenon of various "outsider" Messiah types), (Hampton Roads Publishing Company 2000 ISBN 1-57174-175-5)

Yukio Mishima (Critical Lives) by Damian Flanagan (Reaktion Books, 2014, ISBN 978-1-78023-345-1) [258] Mishima, Yukio (1959). 「鏡子の家」そこで私が書いたもの["Kyōko no Ie" What I wrote in there]. Advertising Leaflet (in Japanese). collected in complete31 2003, p.242 Map Enoshima Enoshima yacht harbor Various scenes of the island, 2022 Aerial photograph - Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and National Transport, Land Image Information (1988) Looking towards Fujisawa from Enoshima Lighthouse Viewed from Miura Peninsula. Enoshima Shrine Iwaya Caves Writer Takashi Inoue believes he wrote Confessions of a Mask to live in postwar Japan, and to get away from his "Realm of Death"; by dying on the same date that he began to write Confessions of a Mask, Mishima intended to dismantle all of his postwar creative activities and return to the "Realm of Death" where he used to live. [208] Legacy [ edit ] Mishima Yukio Literary Museum in Yamanakako, YamanashiIn February 1967, Mishima joined fellow authors Yasunari Kawabata, Kōbō Abe, and Jun Ishikawa in issuing a statement condemning China's Cultural Revolution for suppressing academic and artistic freedom. [147] [148] However, only one Japanese newspaper carried the full text of their statement. [149] As we said earlier, getting to Enoshima is pretty easy. From Tokyo, we recommend to take the Odakyu Odawara line from Shinjuku and stop at Fujisawa, then take the Enoshima Electric Railway to Enoshima Station. The trip takes around an hour and a half and costs 820 yen. Credits: Hyperdia Mishima, Yukio (1959). 憂楽帳ー反乱[Notes of Hope and Despair: The rebel]. Mainichi Shimbun (in Japanese). collected in complete31 2003, p.195 Pronunciations: UK: / ˈ m ɪ ʃ ɪ m ə/, US: /- m ɑː, ˈ m iː ʃ i m ɑː, m ɪ ˈ ʃ iː m ə/, [2] [3] [4] [5] Japanese: [miɕima].

Mishima, Aesthetic Terrorist: An Intellectual Portrait by Andrew Rankin (University of Hawaii Press, 2018, ISBN 0-8248-7374-2) [259] In 1955, Mishima took up weight training to overcome his weak composition, and his strictly observed workout regimen of three sessions per week was not disrupted for the final 15 years of his life. In his 1968 essay Sun and Steel ( 太陽と鉄, Taiyō to tetsu), [108] Mishima deplored the emphasis given by intellectuals to the mind over the body. He later became very skilled ( 5th Dan) at kendo (traditional Japanese swordsmanship), and became 2nd Dan in battōjutsu, and 1st Dan in karate. In 1956, he tried boxing for a short period of time. In the same year, he developed an interest in UFOs and became a member of the Japan Flying Saucer Research Association ( 日本空飛ぶ円盤研究会, Nihon soratobu enban kenkyukai ). [109] In 1954, he fell in love with Sadako Toyoda ( 豊田貞子), who became the model for main characters in The Sunken Waterfall ( 沈める滝, Shizumeru taki ) and The Seven Bridges ( 橋づくし, Hashi zukushi ). [110] [111] Mishima hoped to marry her, but they broke up in 1957. [60] [112]Kuniko Mitani, the sister of Makoto Mitani ( 三谷信), would become the model for "Sonoko" in Confessions of a Mask ( 仮面の告白, Kamen no kokuhaku). Mishima wrote in a letter to an acquaintance that "I wouldn't have lived if I didn't write about her." [63] Mishima, Yukio; Bataille, Georges (1995). My Mother/Madame Edwarda/The Dead Man. London: Marion Boyars. pp.4, 11. ISBN 0-7145-3004-2.

Kimitake Hiraoka ( 平岡 公威, Hiraoka Kimitake, 14 January 1925–25 November 1970), also known as Yukio Mishima [a] ( 三島 由紀夫, Mishima Yukio), was a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, nationalist, and founder of the Tatenokai ( 楯の会, "Shield Society"). Mishima is considered one of the most important writers of the 20th century. He was considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, but the award went to his countryman and benefactor Yasunari Kawabata. [6] His works include the novels Confessions of a Mask ( 仮面の告白, Kamen no kokuhaku) and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion ( 金閣寺, Kinkaku-ji), and the autobiographical essay Sun and Steel ( 太陽と鉄, Taiyō to tetsu). Mishima's work is characterized by "its luxurious vocabulary and decadent metaphors, its fusion of traditional Japanese and modern Western literary styles, and its obsessive assertions of the unity of beauty, eroticism and death", [7] according to author Andrew Rankin. Yukio Mishima: Samurai Writer, a BBC documentary on Yukio Mishima, directed by Michael Macintyre, (1985, VHS ISBN 978-1-4213-6981-5, DVD ISBN 978-1-4213-6982-2) After Japan's defeat in World War II, the country was occupied by the U.S.-led Allied Powers. At the urging of the occupation authorities, many people who held important posts in various fields were purged from public office. The media and publishing industry were also censored, and were not allowed to engage in forms of expression reminiscent of wartime Japanese nationalism. [f] In addition, literary figures, including many of those who had been close to Mishima before the end of the war, were branded "war criminal literary figures". Some people denounced them and converted to left-wing politics, whom Mishima criticized as "opportunists" in his letters to friends. [68] [69] [70] Some prominent literary figures became leftists, and joined the Communist Party as a reaction against wartime militarism and writing socialist realist literature that might support the cause of socialist revolution. [71] Their influence had increased in the Japanese literary world following the end of the war, which Mishima found difficult to accept. Although Mishima was just 20 years old at this time, he worried that his type of literature, based on the 1930s Japanese Romantic School ( 日本浪曼派, "Nihon Rōman Ha"), had already become obsolete. [33] Mishima, Yukio (1966). フランスのテレビに初主演―文壇の若大将三島由紀夫氏[First starring on French television: Yukio Mishima, the Wakadaishō (whizz kid) of the literary world]. Mainichi Shinbun (in Japanese). collected in complete34 2003, pp.31–34 Papinot, E. (1910). Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. 1972 printing. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company. ISBN 0-8048-0996-8.As for the evaluation of Fukushima's book, it is attracting attention as material for learning about Mishima's friendships when writing Forbidden Colors; however, there were criticisms that this book was confused readers, because it was written the real names of all characters like a nonfiction, at the same time, Fukushima specified "a novel about Mr. Yukio Mishima", "this work", "this novel" in the introduction and epilogue [122] or it was advertised as "an autobiographical novel", so the publisher didn't have the confidence to say that everything was true; the only valuable accounts in this book were Mishima's letters. [118] Also there were vitriolic criticisms that these contents of book was insignificant compared to its exaggerated advertising, or it was pointed out that there were contradictions and unnatural adaptations like a made-up story in the neighborhood of gay bars. [118] Gō Itasaka, who thinks Mishima was homosexual, said about this book as below, "Fukusima's petty touch only described a petty Mishima, Mishima was sometimes vulgar, but was never a humble man. The complex which Mishima himself kept holding like a poison in his own (is like available for use at any time), was not always an aversion for him." [118] Jakucho Setouchi and Akihiro Miwa said about this book and Fukusima as below, "It's the worst way for a man or a woman to write bad words about someone you once liked, and Fukusima is ingrateful, because he had been taken care of in various ways when he was poor, by Mishima and his parents. " [123] See for example, Tatsumi Okabe, "Revival of Japanese Militarism?" The Institute of South East Asian Studies Occasional Papers No. 22 (July 1974), p. 11. a b c Mishima, Yukio (1968). 栄誉の絆でつなげ菊と刀[Connect them with bonds of honor, Chrysanthemum and Sword]. Nihon Oyobi Nihonjin (Seikyosha) (in Japanese). collected in complete35 2003, pp.188–199