Yukio Mishima: biography, dates and history Yukio Mishima, novelist and poet, was born in Tokyo, Japan. His real name was Hiraoka Kimitake. Read this brief biography, with dates from history. BIOGRAPHY Yukio Mishima, novelist and poet, was born in Tokyo, Japan. His real name was Hiraoka Kimitake. He was the son of a government official and was primarily reared by his grandmother. He served in a factory during World War II. After the war he was educated at Tokyo University where he studied law. He worked briefly as a civil servant before become a full-time writer. Mishima published his first book, HANASAKARI NO MORI, when he was 19. His second work, KAMEN NO KOKUHAKU (CONFESSIONS OF A MASK), is one of his best known. After seizing control of a military headquarters in Tokyo in an attempt to create pre-war nationalist ideals, Yukio Mishima committed a ritual disembowelment with his sword in 1970. This practice is known as SEPPUKU in Japan. CHRONOLOGY 1925 He was born in Tokyo, Japan. 1944 HANASAKARI NO MORI 1946 He met Kawabata Yasunari. | |
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