Mishima Yukio

Mishima Yukio (Japanese: Mishima Yukio/ Yukio, Romanized: Mishima Yukio, January 14, 1925 - November 25, 1970), whose real name was Hiraoka Kimi Kimitake, Japanese novelist, playwright, journalist, filmmaker, film actor and political activist. Yukio Mishima is one of the masters of Japanese post-war literature. He has a high reputation in the Japanese literary world and has friends from all walks of life. Among Yukio Mishima's many works, "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" published in 1956 is the most well-known. This is a work full of tragic disillusionment aesthetics. Okuno Keno once praised the novel at the time: "This is the highest level of Mishima's literature, the culmination of Mishima's aesthetics, and the biggest harvest in the literary world this year." Mishima's other representative works include the novels "Confessions of the Mask" and "Chao Sao". In addition to Japan, Mishima's works are also highly praised in the Western world. Some people even call him "Japan's Hemingway" and "Contemporary Japan's Leonardo da Vinci". Between 1963 and 1968 (except 1966), he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature five times, and was also the youngest writer in history to be nominated (along with Kipling, he was nominated at the age of 38). After Kawabata Yasunari won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, Mishima Yukio was not recommended for the Nobel Prize again until his death in 1970. Yukio Mishima is also the contemporary writer whose works have been translated into English and other foreign languages ​​the most. Mishima later became more inclined to political activities, joined the Japan Self-Defense Forces for experience, and established the militia organization Tadanokai. On November 25, 1970, Mishima and four other members of the Sonokai kidnapped the director-general of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's Eastern Directorate (today's Eastern Front) at the Ichigaya garrison in Tokyo. Mishima delivered a coup speech on the terrace, but received no support from the Self-Defense Officers. Mishima immediately chose to commit seppuku. This incident had a huge impact on Japan and had a strong impact on Japan's literary circles and political movements, such as the establishment of Japan's New Right.