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	Yukio Mishima - Sacred Visons of Splendor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mishima's men took the General hostage and threatened to kill him if there were anymore intrusions, meanwhile Mishima demanded that the Jietai Soldiers be assembled in the front of the building.
		Mishima, with blood stains on his white gloves and wearing a white headband with the Japanese sun on it, stood above the soldiers in the square on the General's balcony.
		Mishima had told the students not to kill themselves, so they picked up the two severed heads and balanced them on their necks on the carpet, headbands still in place.
	eric.stamey.com /yukio.html (579 words)

	Mishima Yukio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mishima was the modern Japanese author who, at least until the arrival of Murakami Haruki and Yoshimoto Banana, had won the largest readership outside of Japan, at least in part because of the dramatic way he ended his life.
		Mishima was born in Tokyo as Hiraoka Kimitake.
		The influence of Mishima's autocratic grandmother, Natsu " who had Mishima live in her room and forbade him to play with other boys " is frequently cited by biographers as the source of Mishima's later deviation from normality.
	www.f.waseda.jp /mjewel/jlit/authors_works/modernlit/mishima_yukio.html (613 words)

	Yukio Mishima (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Yukio Mishima Yukio Mishima (&19977;&23798;&30001;&32000;&22827; Mishima Yukio), was the public name of Kimitake Hiraoka (&24179;&23713;&20844;&23041; Hiraoka Kimitake), (January 14, 1925 - November 25, 1970), a Japanese author and rightist political activist, notable for both his nihilistic post-war writing and the circumstances of his suicide.
		Mishima must have known that his coup plot would never succeed and his biographer, translator, and former friend John Nathan suggests that the scenario was only a pretext for the Ritual suicide that Mishima always dreamed of.
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	yukio-mishima.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (1929 words)

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		Twenty-nine days after he was born, Mishima was taken from his mother by his grandmother and raised by her on the first floor of the family home.
		Mishima's mother was only allowed to see her son to feed him.The grandmother kept her grandson by her side at all times.
		Yukio Mishima has often been accused of being a right wing fanatic, but neither he or any other member of his private army were ever involved in any violence which is usually characteristic of most right wing organizations.
	members.tripod.com /dennismichaeliannuzz/Biography.HTML (1257 words)

	Yukio Mishima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yukio Mishima debating Student Activist Association of the University of Tokyo at the Liberal Arts section of Todai's Komaba campus on May 13, 1969.
		Mishima must have known that his coup plot would never succeed and his biographer, translator, and former friend John Nathan suggests that the scenario was only a pretext for the ritual suicide of which Mishima had long dreamed.
		Mishima espoused a very individual brand of 'nationalism' towards the end of his life (and in death), but it is perhaps most appropriate to say that, in reality, he took a position outside politics proper.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yukio_Mishima (2305 words)

	Yukio Mishima
		Mishima's aesthetic was the beauty of the violent death, the death of one in his prime, an ideal common in classical Japanese literature.
		Mishima wrote on a piece of paper: "We hereby swear to be the foundation of Kokoku Nippon [Imperial Japan]." He cut a finger, and everyone else followed, letting the blood fill to the brim of a cup.
		Mishima equates socialism and the welfare state, and finds that at the end of the first, there is "the fatigue of boredom"; whilst at the end of the second there is suppression of freedom.
	www.oswaldmosley.com /people/mishima.html (3215 words)

	Mishima's Last Words: The Sea of Fertility Part I -- ThingsAsian Article
		Aristocratic elegance is contrasted unfavorably in Spring Snow with the resolution of the samurai, which had enjoyed centuries of "immunity to the virus of elegance" and "the virus of introspection." And Mishima died with pain and with all the grace and elegance of a meat cleaver and a chopping block.
		Mishima himself was often called a militant rightist because he kept a personal army of young men trained in Japanese martial arts.
		Mishima was a warrior of the Greek mould.
	www.thingsasian.com /goto_article/article.2892.html (1679 words)

	Mishima Yukio
		Much of Mishima might be read this way, as sensational self-dramatization aimed at wealth and notoriety, for he kept himself constantly in public view, writing, directing, and acting in plays and movies, posing for photographic essays on physical culture, or making news through the activities of his small private army.
		Yukio Mishima was a very dedicated man, his final act just emphasizing that quality of character.
		It was a state of being which the later Mishima rejected in a way that is very appealing to me, by going back into his own tradition for a nobler identity--by deciding in his middle years to be the hero he knew he was not when he was twenty-three.
	www.washburn.edu /reference/bridge24/Mishima.html (2225 words)

	Yukio Mishima
		But the novel is haunting and presents a story of love (not, I believe, the one that is portrayed on the novel's surface) in such indescribable complexity and depth that the novel is felt in and remains in the heart of the reader who will walk away from the novel with a profound sadness.
		The Mishima Yukio Museum (Bungakukan) to be built in the Lake Yamanakako Library Grove (Bungaku-no-mori) overlooking Mount Fuji shall give us a chance to reflect on such thoughts.
		Mishima Yukio was the most important writer of post war Japan.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/m/mishima_yukio.htm (907 words)

	Yukio Mishima
		Yukio Mishima wrote the stage adaptation of a novel; he appears mostly naked as a human statue towards the end of the film.
		Of course by the time Mishima was supporting the traditions of Japanese imperialism, the Emporer had already been severely demoted by the occupying American forces.
		Mishima was proud and serious, but the troops and their exercises were lacking conviction or preparedness.
	www.links.net /vita/trip/japan/media/bukz/mishima (644 words)

	Yukio Mishima
		The name Yukio can loosely be translated as "Man who chronicals reason." Mishima was raised mainly by his paternal grandmother, who hardly allowed the boy out of her sight.
		Mishima was deeply attracted to the patriotism of imperial Japan, and samurai spirit of Japan's past.
		Mishima was considered to be in his time the only living author talented enough to write Kabuki plays in traditional style.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /mishima.htm (1490 words)

	Yukio Mishima Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Mishima's ability to shift direction is strikingly demonstrated in his next notable work, Shiosai (The Sound of the Sea, 1954).
		The tale is conspicuous in the Mishima canon for its simplicity and optimism.
		Yukio Mishima was the first Japanese writer of the postwar generation to attain international fame.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/yukio-mishima (779 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Mishima, Yukio
		In his quest for masculinity, Yukio Mishima mythologized himself both in his life and his writings, culminating in his ritual suicide.
		Mishima was born to a family dominated by his petulant and oppressive paternal grandmother, Natsu.
		Mishima's father was said to be extremely callous and egotistic; he was indifferent to his son's well-being and let Mishima become a hostage to Natsu to pacify his temperamental mother.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/mishima_y.html (584 words)

	Dojoji: One of Yukio Mishima's Modern Noh Plays
		Knowing Mishima’s ties to and affection for the military and samurai class, it’s easy to understand why he would be compelled to write a play in the Noh style.
		Mishima is very heavy-handed here: Respect his use of the Noh play; revere traditional Japan.
		Mishima’s favorite things are in this play: issues of beauty, tradition, modernization, and progress; allusions to traditional, military forms of art; criticism of the nouveau riche in Japan.
	www.wdog.com /rider/writings/dojoji_one_of_yukio_mishima.htm (1215 words)

	My Friend Hitler; And Other Plays; Yukio Mishima
		"Mishima Yukio has long been regarded in Japan as perhaps the most gifted writer for the stage in the postwar period, but virtually none of his dramatic works have been made available in English since the pioneering translations of Donald Keene more than two decades ago.
		Though best known for his novels, Yukio Mishima published more than sixty plays, almost all of which were produced during his lifetime.
		Yukio Mishima is widely celebrated as one of the most talented Japanese writers of the twentieth century.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/cup/catalog/data/023112/0231126328.HTM (572 words)

	Mishima's "Patriotism" (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Even the format Mishima uses is reminiscent of the calm, methodical stages that the couple goes through in undertaking their suicides.
		Mishima uses seppuku, or harakiri, to display both the lieutenant's and his own unfaltering nationalism and loyalty to the emperial system.
		Harakiri developed as an integral part of the code of bushido and the discipline of the samurai warrior class, it is an act of loyalty and dignity and also a means of redeeming failure through an honorable death.
	personal.centenary.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /~khowell/index4patriotism.html (924 words)

	Amazon.com: Runaway Horses: Books: Yukio Mishima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mishima expertly causes the reader to feel the long years that have passed for Honda, and the shock that comes in being jerked back to the death of Kiyoaki.
		This is not an intent to (summarize) mishima's sea of fertility...
		mishima himself is going to answer this question, to give it the first (leading) sign, that we should know it doesn't crack secrets for us, but merely provides us with a minimum limit, which we can begin our journey from..
	www.amazon.com /Runaway-Horses-Vintage-International-Mishima/dp/0679722408 (2958 words)

	Yukio Mishima - A 20th Century Samurai, Webeurope (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Yukio Mishima, pseudonym of Kimitake Hiraoka (1925-1970), was a Japanese novelist and playwright, whose central theme is the dichotomy between traditional Japanese values and the spiritual barrenness of contemporary life.
		Mishima's first novel, the partly autobiographical Confessions of a Mask (1948), was widely acclaimed and successful enough to enable its author to become a full-time writer.
		A latter day samurai, Mishima attempted to rally his people to combat the damage being done to Japanese society by such alien forces as liberalism and consumerism.
	www.webeurope.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /yukio-mishima-a-20th-century-samurai.htm (452 words)

	Amazon.com: Spring Snow: Books: Yukio Mishima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Yukio Mishima is, sadly, known best for the circumstances of his death.
		Mishima writes with a beauty that is hard to categorize; it's not really comparable to Murakami or Tanizaki, or any other famed Japanese authors who are still hailed today.
		Mishima seems to put a lot of emotional energy into the writing and he says things that are a bit on the edge of social norms.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679722416?v=glance (2291 words)

	Behind the Headlines
		Mishima was a prodigiously talented novelist, whose books were bestsellers both in Japan and in the West: he is the author of Forbidden Colors, Confessions of a Mask, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, and The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea, among others.
		Mishima loved the purity of these men and their doomed, heroic action: it was, to him, a shining example of how action can embody and give meaning to life, even as that life snuffs itself out of existence.
		The soldiers gathered, and Mishima stood on a parapet and exhorted them to throw out the "peace constitution" that had disarmed the nation, reunite the sword and the chrysanthemum, and restore the status of the Emperor as the living repository of Japanese culture and national independence.
	www.antiwar.com /justin/j022301.html (3611 words)

	YUKIO MISHIMA
		Yukio Mishima is a hard guy to get a handle on.
		Whatever Mishima was, he could write with an astounding mixture of insight, delicacy and impact.
		He could build subtle, intricate pictures of exqusite detail and beauty, one on top of another, somehow, magically, leaving the reader (at least this reader) with a feeling of having been impaled with a butterfly's sword.
	www.bookpoodah.com /yukio_mishima.html (563 words)

	Yukio Mishima: A Who2 Profile (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Yukio Mishima is one of the most widely-read Japanese authors of the 20th century, due in part to his dramatic suicide in 1970.
		Born in Tokyo, Mishima studied law and was a civil servant before turning to writing exclusively.
		His personal life got just as much attention as his writing: after a 1952 trip to Greece Mishima began a strict regimen of body-building, and he became keen on photographing his chiseled physique in poses reminiscent of the death of the Christian martyr St. Sebastian.
	www.who2.com.cob-web.org:8888 /yukiomishima.html (293 words)

	Yukio Mishima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		After the war he studied law and for a short time was employed in the finance ministry.
		Mishima's first novel, the partly autobiographical Confessions of a Mask (1949; trans.
		Mishima, who organized the Tatenokai, a society stressing physical fitness and the martial arts, committed ritual suicide.
	www.ox.compsoc.net /~simon/simons/historyweb/mishima.html (196 words)

	Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Trivia: Mishima's family originally cooperated with the making of this film but when their request that the gay bar scene be removed was denied, they withdrew their help.
		Mishima is one of the greatest films ever made.
		It follows the life of Yukio Mishima, Japan's most celebrated writer, combining the last day of his life with flashbacks and his stories.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0089603 (363 words)

	Yukio Mishima Biography \| Authors and Artist for Young Adults
		Mishima was a writer, poet, playwright, librettist, actor, bodybuilder, and right-wing political activist renowned for his flamboyant personality, eccentric political beliefs, and spectacular ritual suicide in 1970.
		At the time of his death at age forty-five, Mishima "was perhaps the most famous private citizen in Japan," according to James Fallows writing in the Atlantic.
		Fallows went on to note that Mishima's suicide "is often described as the most disturbing event of the postwar years [in Japan], since it was the most direct challenge to the modern religion of GNP."
	www.bookrags.com /biography/yukio-mishima-aya (202 words)

	YUKIO MISHIMA :: EL BESO, Mundo de Tinieblas, Musica Gotica y La Subcultura Underworld
		Mishima se gradúa de la escuela media de Gakusyuin en 1941, su padre, Azusa Hiraoka, se retira valeroso como director de la oficina de las industrias pesqueras.
		Mishima lee el poema "Verano florido" por Shizuo Ito y se dedica a estudiar la literatura de la corte del período Heian, del cual nace el poema "La gran proclamación imperial" publicada también en Bungei Bunka (vol.5, No.4).
		Hacia finales de 1948 Mishima comienza a escribir su primera novela, y la mas controversial a juicio de muchos y en abril de 1949 se publica, "Confesiones de una Mascara", la cual es catalogada de repugnante en el periódico Tosho.
	www.elbeso.cl /ElFestinMishima.htm (961 words)

	Mishima, Yukio. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Mishima wrote novels, short stories, essays, and plays.
		Mishima and the youthful members of his Tatenokai [Shield Society] practiced physical fitness and the ancient arts of the samurai, e.g., karate and swordsmanship, attempting to return to the ideals of Japan under Imperial rule.
		After an unsuccessful demonstration in which he harangued the Japanese self-defense forces for their lack of power under the Japanese constitution, Mishima committed ritual suicide (seppuku).
	www.bartleby.com /65/mi/MishimaY.html (360 words)

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