Kimitake Hiraoka (平岡 公威, Hiraoka Kimitake; 14 January 1925 – 25 November 1970), known by his pen name Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫, Mishima Yukio), was a Japanese writer, playwright, actor, martial artist, model, and the leader of an attempted coup d'état that culminated in his ritual suicide by seppuku.
Mishima is considered one of the most important postwar stylists of the Japanese language. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times in the 1960s. His works include the novels Confessions of a Mask and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, and the autobiographical essay Sun and Steel.
Mishima's political activities made him a controversial figure. From his mid-30s onwards, his far-right ideology and reactionary beliefs became increasingly evident.
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Fiction, Japan, fiction, Fiction, general, Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author), Japanese fiction, Translations into English, Japanese Authors, History and criticism, Japanese literature, Biography, Conduct of life, Fiction, short stories (single author), Language and languages, Bushido, Criticism and interpretation, Japanese language, Drama, Littérature japonaise, Style, Correspondence, Gay youth, Japanese Novelists, Japanese drama, Lawyers, fiction, Man-woman relationshipsPeople
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, Makoto Mitani (1925-), 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), Meiji period, 1868-1912, Taishō period, 1912-1926, To 794, xian daiID Numbers
- OLID: OL220942A
- Amazon ID: B000AQ79GC
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- GoodReads: 35258
- ISNI: 0000000121496808
- IMDb: nm0592758
- Library of Congress Names: n79056062
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- SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): CFIV002484
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- Wikidata: Q134456
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Alternative names
- Yukio Mishima
- Mishima Yukio
- Kimitake Hiraoka
- Hiraoka Kimitake
- 平岡公威
- Mishima
- yukio Mishima
- Yukio MISHIMA
- mishima-yukio
- YUKIO MISHIMA
- MISHIMA
- yukio mishima
- 三島由紀夫 Yulio Mishima
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