![]() ![]() ![]() However, his father and grandmother were very authoritarian in their upbringing-with his own artistic expression unsupported (for the usual Starving Artist-related fears). Despite the vicissitudes of the Meiji Restoration, his side of the family never really turned Impoverished Patrician (having married into Self-Made Man relatives too). Perhaps unsurprisingly, his traditional aesthetics root from his descent from both the main house of Tokugawa Ieyasu and one of his retainers. One of his dear friends was Shintaro Ishihara, future governor of Tokyo, who would later write the book on Japanese neo-nationalism, The Japan That Can Say No. Mishima also spoke Surprisingly Good English so much that he was able to do a famous TIME Magazine interview in 1969 without an interpreter. A Manly Gay given to bodybuilding and Samurai worship, he was part of, and contributed to, the persistent undercurrent of traditionalist right-wing nationalism that persisted after the Japanese defeat in 1945, longing for the days of genuine Imperial rule and a strong Japanese military. ![]() ![]() Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫, Mishima Yukio, real name 平岡 公威, Hiraoka Kimitake, Janu– November 25, 1970) was one of the greats of post- war Japanese literature. Mishima: Author, actor, stud, samurai worshiper, failed coup leader. ![]()
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