Yukio Mishima

Mishima, Yukio (Kimitake Hiraoka; 1925–70), Japanese author. His writing is obsessed with the conflict between traditional and post-World War II Japan. He formed a private army devoted to ancient martial arts and committed hara-kiri. His work includes the novels The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1956), Sun and Steel (1970), Sea of Fertility (4 vols., 1970), and Patriotism (1966), on ritual suicide, and modern Kabuki and Noh plays.