In this final episode of our series on the life of Yukio Mishima, we witness Mishima suffer his first major career setback. He subsequently sets down a new path for his life, which would end in a tragic, bloody climax.

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Works Cited

Inose, Naoki, and Hiroaki Sato. PERSONA: a Biography of Yukio Mishima. Stone Bridge Press, 2020.

Nathan, John. Mishima: a Biography. Little, Brown, and Company, 1974.

Stokes, Henry Scott. The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995.

Mishima, Yukio. Confessions of a Mask. New Directions, 1958.