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Yukio Mishima illustrated by Suehiro Maruo

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Mishima moments before comitting seppuku

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Patriotism, 1968.

dir. by Yukio Mishima.

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Yukio Mishima, The Death of a Man, by Kishin Shinoyama

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“He was at an age when youth was a plaything, humanity a collection of clay dolls, an age when, putting ceremony to his own uses, he could turn honesty and sincerity into the play of the evening sky.”

—Yukio Mishima, The Decay of the Angel (1972)

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Yukio Mishima Riding a Horse

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The public funeral. From the right: Yasunari Kawabata (who, before his own suicide in the spring of 1972, spoke of being visited by the specter of Yukio Mishima); the widow, Yōko Mishima (“I had thought he might do something but that it would be next year”); his father, Azusa Hiraoka (“I was not particularly surprised. My brain rejected the information”); and his mother, Shizué Hiraoka, who had seen him for the last time the night before (“I watched him leaving and I couldn’t help thinking how tired he looked, how stooped was his back”).