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For the young army officer of Yukio Mishima's seminal story, "Patriotism," death and ecstasy become elementally intertwined. With his unique rigor and passion, Mishima hones in on the body as the great tragic stage for all we call social, ritual, political.
He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University’s School of Jurisprudence in 1947. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985).
Yukio Mishima was born in Tokyo in 1925. Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1976), Yoichi Takabayashi. And the greatest sin is that of a man who, finding himself in a world where the sacred light of His Majesty is obscured, nevertheless determines to go on living without doing anything about it.
written when he was 19 years old. Portrait of Yukio Mishima. _____ Excerpt One (pages 21-26): It is no exaggeration to say that the first real problem I faced in my life was that of beauty.
Golden Pavilion after a fire. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944, and he established himself as a major author with… More about Yukio Mishima
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“Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.” ― …
During World War II, having failed to qualify physically for military service, he worked in a Tokyo factory, and after the war he studied law at the University of Tokyo.In 1948–49 he worked in the banking division of the Japanese Ministry of Finance. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944, and he established himself as a major author with…
Mishima was the son of a high civil servant and attended the aristocratic Peers School in Tokyo. So begins Yukio Mishima's non-novel meditation, his manifesto borne of his internal struggle with beauty and integrity (through discipline bodily as well as internal), the only manifestation of the striving for purity and perfection: suffering.
Sun And Steel is Mishima's narrative search for …
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He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University’s School of Jurisprudence in 1947. Yukio Mishima was born in Tokyo in 1925. ― Yukio Mishima, Runaway Horses: The Sea of Fertility, 2.
Following are excerpts from the works of Yukio Mishima, first from “Confes sions of a Mash,” his auto biographical first novel.
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