Work
Theory on Yukio Mishima
Publication date: 2023/04/26
Twenty years in the making — a culmination of Mishima studies that deciphers the mysteries of his thought and actions directly from the texts themselves!
Why did Mishima choose such a death? — The answer lay hidden within his novels.
Through close readings of Confessions of a Mask, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Voices of the Heroic Dead, and The Sea of Fertility, this groundbreaking study unifies Mishima’s literary works and his actions as an imperialist into a single perspective.
With the deep textual insight of a practicing writer, it thrillingly unravels the essence of Mishima’s thought — a definitive study for the Reiwa era.
Winner of the 22nd Kobayashi Hideo Prize.