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Yukio Mishima

Born

in Tokyo, Japan

January 14, 1925

Died

November 25, 1970

Website

http://www.mishimayukio.jp/index.html

Genre

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Sui Generis

Influences

Thomas Mann, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Yasunari Kawabata, Fyodor Dostoyevsk ...more

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Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫) was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University’s School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944 and he established himself as a major author with Confessions of a Mask (1949). From then until his death he continued to publish novels, short stories, and plays each year. His crowning achievement, the Sea of Fertility tetralogy—which contains the novels Spring Snow (1969), Runaway Horses (1969), The Temple of Dawn (1970), and The Decay of the Angel (1971)—is considered one of the definitive works of twentieth-century Japanese fiction. In 1970, at the age of forty-five and the day after completing the last novel in the Fertility series, Mishima ...more

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Yukio Mishima’s books

Average rating: 3.91 · 178,621 ratings · 16,766 reviews · 447 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima, John Nathan (Translator) 3.87 avg rating — 35,481 ratings — published 1963 — 143 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Confessions of a Mask 3.95 avg rating — 26,425 ratings — published 1949 — 190 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 17,184 ratings — published 1967 — 117 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima, Ivan Morris (Translation) 3.98 avg rating — 17,799 ratings — published 1956 — 209 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sound of Waves 3.78 avg rating — 17,302 ratings — published 1954 — 141 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Runaway Horses (The Sea of Fertility, #2) 4.22 avg rating — 6,723 ratings — published 1969 — 89 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life for Sale 3.74 avg rating — 5,996 ratings — published 1968 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death in Midsummer and Other Stories by Yukio Mishima, Donald Keene (Translator), Ivan Morris (Translator) 4.04 avg rating — 4,594 ratings — published 1953 — 76 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thirst for Love 3.65 avg rating — 5,076 ratings — published 1950 — 96 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sun & Steel by Yukio Mishima, John Bester (Translator) 3.91 avg rating — 4,468 ratings — published 1968	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Yukio Mishima

The Sea of Fertility (4 books)
by

Yukio Mishima,

Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)

4.13 avg rating — 33,109 ratings

Quotes by Yukio Mishima (?)

“True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”
― Yukio Mishima

tags: beauty, cruelty, love

758 likes

“What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

tags: knowledge, stillness, transformation

515 likes

“Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.”
― Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

tags: sense-of-wonder

451 likes

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Polls

September 2020 New School Classic Poll

A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor, 1968, 252 pages

74 votes, 24.3%

Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima, 1968, 389 pages

69 votes, 22.6%

Maurice by E.M. Forster, 1971, 256 pages

44 votes, 14.4%

The Price of Salt by Claire Morgan (Pseudonym), Patricia Highsmith, 1952, 292 pages

41 votes, 13.4%

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford, 1915, 368 pages

33 votes, 10.8%

The Family of Pascual Duarte by Camilo José Cela, 1942, 166 pages

24 votes, 7.9%

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 1938, 513 pages

20 votes, 6.6%

305 total votes

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