Yukio Mishima

Renowned poet, actor, reactionary

Born on 14 January 1925, in Yotsuya, Tokyo, under the name Hiraoka Kimitake (平岡公威), the young Mishima was raised by his grandmother Natsu, an illegitimate granddaughter of Matsudaira Yoritaka (松平頼位), the daimyō of Shishido in Hitachi Province. Her eccentric, overprotective and sometimes violent character shaped Mishima for the rest of his life. At the age...

Yukio Mishima