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Acclaimed japanese novelist yukio mishima 19251970 was also a prolific playwright, penning. Death in midsummer is a 1953 collection of stories by yukio mishima. Nothing comes close to 1520 when it comes to battery life. Acclaimed japanese novelist yukio mishima 19251970 was also a prolific playwright, penning more than sixty plays, nearly all of which were produced in his lifetime. The life and death of yukio mishima the new york times. Yukio mishima was the pen name of kimitake hiraoka, a japanese. On november 25, 1970, the japanese author and playwright yukio mishima committed seppuku in an attempted military coup. Often his characters are modern japanese who turn out to be not so. The immediate postwar period in japan was one of rapid growth, rebuilding and westernization under the allied occupation 19451952. Mishima is considered one of the most important japanese authors of the 20th century. Go to the editions section to read or download ebooks.
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