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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: 3.88 · 270,839 ratings · 28,830 reviews · 464 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima, John Nathan (Translator) 3.84 avg rating — 52,647 ratings — published 1963 — 50 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 — 39,444 ratings — published 1949 — 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 Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima, Ivan Morris (Translation) 3.97 avg rating — 24,917 ratings — published 1956 — 237 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 — 23,305 ratings — published 1967 — 139 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 3.77 avg rating — 23,980 ratings — published 1954 — 11 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 3.71 avg rating — 14,858 ratings — published 1968 — 3 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) 4.23 avg rating — 9,023 ratings — published 1969 — 14 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) 3.83 avg rating — 8,868 ratings — published 1968 — 3 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 3.63 avg rating — 7,449 ratings — published 1950 — 19 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) 3.99 avg rating — 6,500 ratings — published 1953 — 85 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

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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 — 44,240 ratings

Quotes by Yukio Mishima (?)

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

tags: beauty, cruelty, love

839 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

587 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

524 likes

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Polls

What would you like to read for the 6-month study for the last part of 2022? You may also write in a vote. It's not a strict rule, but please try to keep the book to 700+ pages.

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

32 votes, 23.7%

The Sea of Fertility by Yukio Mishima

23 votes, 17.0%

Don Quixote (write-in)

20 votes, 14.8%

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

17 votes, 12.6%

Gone With The Wind (write-in)

16 votes, 11.9%

The goldfinch, by Donna Tartt (write-in)

14 votes, 10.4%

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

5 votes, 3.7%

U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money by John Dos Passos

5 votes, 3.7%

The Water Margin by Shi Nai'an

2 votes, 1.5%

The Sea ofFertitilty (write-in)

1 vote, 0.7%

135 total votes

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