YUKIO MISHIMA

The author of masterworks such as The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and Forbidden Colors, Mishima, a celebrated figure in postwar wo rld literature, remains a controversial figure in Japan. His reactionary politics and the spectacular nature of his death had so pro foundly impacted Japanese society that images associated with the event were never publicly shown. In the months prior to the Novemb er incident, he enlisted Kishin Shinoyama to create a photographic, radical work of fiction, a photo essay on the death of the Japan ese ever...[Read more]