Yukio Mishima

(1925-1970)

Japanese author

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Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫, Mishima Yukio, January 14, 1925 – November 25, 1970), born Kimitake Hiraoka (平岡公威, Hiraoka Kimitake) was a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, nationalist, and founder of the Tatenokai (楯の会, "Shield Society"), an unarmed civilian militia. Mishima is considered one of the most important Japanese authors 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. 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".

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Born	14 January 1925 Yotsuya, Tokyo, Japan
Died	25 November 1970 (aged 45) Ichigaya, Tokyo, Japan
Zodiac	Capricorn
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Noriko Tomita info 1st child with Yoko Sugiyama Female b. 2 Jun 1959 · Age: 66 · 1959- · Celebrity Baby

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Iichiro Hiraoka info 2nd child with Yoko Sugiyama Male b. 2 May 1962 · Age: 63 · 1962- · Celebrity Baby

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