Yukio Mishima

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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1956
  • Latest Book:
    January 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Sea of Fertility

1 - Spring Snow (Jun-1972)
2 - Runaway Horses (May-1973)
3 - Temple of Dawn (Oct-1973)
4 - The Decay of the Angel (Apr-1990)

Book List in Order: 25 titles

  • Sound of Waves

    A timeless story of first love set in a remote fishing village in Japan. • "A story that is both happy and a work of art.... Altogether a joyous and lovely thing."  -- The New York Times A young fisherman is entranced at the sight o...

  • Confessions of a Mask

    The story of a man coming to terms with his homosexuality in traditional Japanese society has become a modern classic.

    Confessions of a Mask tells the story of Kochan, an adolescent boy tormented by his burgeoning attraction to men: he wants to...

  • Sun and Steel

  • Death in Midsummer and Other Stories

    Recognized throughout the world for his brilliance as a novelist and playwright, Yukio Mishima is also noted as a master of the short story in his native Japan, where the form is practiced as a major art. Nine of Yukio Mishima’s finest stories were...

  • Spring Snow

    Sea of Fertility - 1

    "A classic of Japanese literature" (Chicago Sun-Times) and the first novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, set in 1912 Tokyo, featuring an aspiring lawyer who believes he has met the successive reincarnations of his c...

  • After the Banquet

    For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness. But when the she falls in love with one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, she renounces her business in order to become his wife....

  • Runaway Horses

    Sea of Fertility - 2

    The second novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility -- and “a modern masterpiece” (The Baltimore Sun) -- narrated by a judge in Osaka who believes he has met  the successive reincarnation of his childhood friend Kiyoa...

  • Temple of Dawn

    Sea of Fertility - 3

    The third novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, in which a brilliant lawyer will go to nearly any length to discover whether a young Thai princess is in fact the reincarnated spirit of his childhood friend. • “Surpassi...

  • The Way of the Samurai



  • The Sea of Fertility

  • The Decay of the Angel

    Sea of Fertility - 4

    The final installment of the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, finds Shigekuni Honda an elderly wealthy man in the 1960s, adopting a teenage orphan whom he is convinced is the reincarnation of his childhood friend. • "One of...

  • The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

    Yukio Mishima’s The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea explores the vicious nature of youth that is sometimes mistaken for innocence.
     
    Thirteen-year-old Noboru is a member of a gang of highly philosophical teenage boys who reject th...

  • The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

    Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone until he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple...

  • Acts of Worship

    Part autobiography and part reflection, this document describes the tortuous path Yukio Mishima took from introverted child to acclaimed novelist and playwright, and self-proclaimed conscience of post-war Japan....

  • Silk and Insight

    This is a tale based on the strike which took place in the mid-1950s at Omi Kenshi, a silk manufacturer not far from Tokyo. The events described reflect the management / labour tensions of the period and is a piece of social commentary on the transfo...

  • Forbidden Colors

    From one of Japan''s greatest modern writers comes an exquisitely disturbing novel of sexual combat and concealed passion, a work that distills beauty, longing, and loathing into an intoxicating tale.
     
    An aging, embittered novelist set...

  • Thirst for Love

  • Forbidden Colours

    Written when Mishima was only twentysix, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys the love of a young man who is stunningly handsome but who lacks the ability to love. As in Mann's Death in Ven...

  • Patriotism

    One of the most powerful short stories ever written: Yukio Mishima’s masterpiece about the erotics of patriotism and honor, love and suicide. By now, Yukio Mishima’s (1925-1970) dramatic demise through an act of seppuku after an inflammatory publ...



  • The Frolic of the Beasts

    Translated into English for the first time, a gripping short novel about an affair gone wrong, from the acclaimed Japanese author, Yukio Mishima. Set in rural Japan shortly after World War II, The Frolic of the Beasts tells the story of a strange ...

  • Star

    For the first time in English, a glittering novella about stardom from “one of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century” (Judith Thurman, The New Yorker) Winner of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Trans...

  • Life for Sale

    “A propulsive, madcap story” (The New York Times) about a salaryman who decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper after a botched suicide attempt. • "An outstanding writer not only of Japan, but of...

  • Beautiful Star

  • Death in Midsummer

  • Voices of the Fallen Heroes

    A new selection of Yukio Mishima (author of Spring Snow and The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea) short stories from the 1960s -- his final decade -- Voices of the Fallen Heroes offers a unique glimpse into the mind of one of Japan’s greates...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Yukio Mishima has published 25 books.

The next book by Yukio Mishima, Voices of the Fallen Heroes, will be published in January 2025.

The first book by Yukio Mishima, Sound of Waves, was published in June 1956.

Yes. Yukio Mishima has 1 series.
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