Yukio Mishima
Author · 44 books
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 committed seppuku (ritual suicide)—a spectacular death that attracted worldwide attention.
Series
Books
Le ultime parole di Mishima
2001
Sun and Steel
2024
Five Modern No Plays
1950
My Friend Hitler and Other Plays of Yukio Mishima
1968
Acts of Worship
Seven Stories
1965
The Way of the Samurai
1967
Kagami no Ie (1964)
1964
Patriotism
1961
The Decay of the Angel
1970
Death in Midsummer and Other Stories
1953
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
2018
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
1963
Ali
1951
La escuela de la carne
1963
The Boy Who Wrote Poetry
1954
Life for Sale
1968
Silk and Insight
1987
The Death of a Man
2020
The Temple of Dawn
1970
The Frolic of the Beasts
1961
After the Banquet
1960
المراسلات
1997
The Seven Bridges
1953
Sun & Steel
1968
Fountains in the Rain
2016
Thirst for Love
1950
Beautiful Star
1962
The Sea of Fertility
1970
Martyrdom
1948
Madame de Sade
1965
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
1956
Mishima on Stage
The Black Lizard and Other Plays
2000
Confessions of a Mask
1949
Bara-kei
1971
Dōjōji
1957
Runaway Horses
1969
Star
1961
Modern Japanese Short Stories
Twenty-Five Stories by Japan's Leading Writers
1962
Spring Snow
1967
Lecciones espirituales para los jóvenes samuráis
1969
Forbidden Colors
1951
The Sound of Waves
1954
Voices of the Fallen Heroes and Other Stories
2025
Dojoji et autres nouvelles
2002
