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Yukio Mishima – Bio

DTE Studio — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 14:11:45 +0000

Yukio Mishima, born in 1925, was a Japanese author, poet, actor and film director. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1947 and obtained a position as an official in the government’s Finance Ministry. However, he resigned during the first year and became a professional writer. Mishima is considered one of the most important Japanese authors of the 20th century. He was nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. His major works include Thirst for Love, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, and The Sea of Fertility tetralogy. Mishima was also known for his natural bodybuilding and modeling career. He was featured as a photo model in Eikoh Hosoe’s Ba-ra-kei: Ordeal by Rose.

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Yukio Mishima is featured in Sanbusaku 1 三部作

True Beauty

DTE Studio — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:01:56 +0000

“True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”

Acts of Worship: Seven Stories

DTE Studio — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 20:20:09 +0000

ACTS OF WORSHIP: SEVEN STORIES

“Someone, somewhere, had tied up the darkness, he thought as he went: the bag of darkness had been tied at the mouth, enclosing within it a host of smaller bags. The stars were tiny, almost imperceptible perforations; otherwise, there wasn’t a single hole through which light could pass.
The darkness in which he walked immersed was gradually pervading him. His own footfall was utterly remote, his presence barely rippled the air. His being had been compressed to the utmost – to the point where it had no need to forge a path for itself through the night, but could weave its way through the gaps between the particles of which the darkness was composed.”

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

DTE Studio — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 20:10:46 +0000

THE SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA

“An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn’t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.”

Yukio Mishima

DTE Studio — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 20:02:41 +0000

“The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can’t have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I’ll show you a man who is not yet a man.”

Thirst For Love

DTE Studio — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 19:56:05 +0000

THIRST FOR LOVE

“When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.”

Runaway Horses

DTE Studio — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 19:54:03 +0000

RUNAWAY HORSES

“Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.”