Yukio Mishima

Hiraoka Kimitake, known as Yukio Mishima, was born on 14 January 1925 in Tokyo. His paternal grandmother raised him at her side, apart from his parents, for several years. A pupil at the Peers' School, then a law student at the University of Tokyo until 1947, he entered the Ministry of Finance and resigned after a year to devote himself to writing. In 1968 he founded a private militia, the Shield Society. On 25 November 1970, after trying in vain to rouse the soldiers of a Tokyo barracks, he took his own life by seppuku.

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• NovelConfessions of a Mask仮面の告白Yukio Mishima · 1949Literature