Search results for Yukio Mishima
Runaway Horses
$12.95 – Paperback / Vintage
The second book in Mishima's landmark The Sea of Fertility sequence, this is the chronicle of a conspiracy, a novel about the roots and nature of Japanese fanaticism in the years that led to war. Buy or find out more→
Confessions of a Mask
$17.95 – Paperback / New Directions Publishing Corporation
Confessions of a Mask is one of the classics of modern Japanese fiction. It is the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact that he is unlike other young men. Mishima's protagonist discovers that he... Buy or find out more→
Patriotism
$13.95 – Paperback / New Directions Publishing Corporation
One of the most powerful short stories ever written: Yukio Mishima's masterpiece about the erotics of patriotism and honor, love and suicide. Buy or find out more→
Thirst for Love
$12.95 – Paperback / Vintage
After the early death of her philandering husband, Etsuko moves into her father-in-law's house, where she numbly submits to the old man's advances. But soon she finds herself in love with the young servant Saburo. Tormented by his... Buy or find out more→
The Temple of Dawn
$12.95 – Paperback / Vintage
The story of a man called Honda's obsessive pursuit of a beautiful young Thai princess, and an equally passionate search for enlightenment that takes him to India. It dramatizes the Japanese experience from the eve of World War II... Buy or find out more→
Temple of the Golden Pavillion
$12.95 – Paperback / Vintage
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 untill he becomes an... Buy or find out more→
Spring Snow
$12.95 – Paperback / Vintage
The first book of Mishima's landmark The Sea of Fertility sequence, this novel is set in Tokyo in 1912, when the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders. Buy or find out more→
Five Modern No Plays
$23.95 – Paperback / Random House USA Inc
Japanese No drama is one of the great art forms that has fascinated people throughout the world. The late Yukio Mishima, one of Japan's outstanding post-war writers, infused new life into the form by using it for plays that... Buy or find out more→
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
$12.95 – Paperback / Vintage
THE SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA tells of a band of savage thirteen-year-old boys who reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call... Buy or find out more→
Confessions of a Mask
$34.95 – Paperback / Peter Owen Publishers
Detailing his progress from an isolated childhood through adolescence to manhood, including an abortive love affair with a classmate's sister, this autobiographical novel reports the inner life of a boy's preoccupation with... Buy or find out more→
Forbidden Colors
$24.95 – Paperback / Random House USA Inc
Seeking revenge on the women who betrayed him, Shunsuke, an aging misogynist, enlists the help of Yuichi, a young homosexual, whose experiences in the gay underworld vividly depict the corruption of postwar Tokyo. Reprint. 15,000... Buy or find out more→
The Decay of the Angel
$12.95 – Paperback / Vintage
The final volume in the Sea of Fertility series. The dominant themes of the story cycle are brought together as Honda discovers and adopts a 16-year-old orphan, Toru, as his heir. Is Toru destined to die young, as did each of... Buy or find out more→
Temple of the Golden Pavillion
$23.95 – Paperback / Random House USA Inc
A hopeless stutterer, taunted by his schoolmates, Mizoguchi feels utterly alone until he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto. But he quickly becomes obsessed with the temple's beauty, and cannot live in peace as long as... Buy or find out more→
Forbidden Colours
$24.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Shinsuké is an ageing author whose books present women as creatures of marble perfection, but whose diary contains his true opinion - a disdainful and bilious loathing, engendered by three marriages and countless affairs. When... Buy or find out more→
The Temple of the Golden Pavillion
$30.95 – Hardback / Random House USA Inc
A hopeless stutterer, taunted by his schoolmates, Mizoguchi feels utterly alone until he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto. But he quickly becomes obsessed with the temple's beauty, and cannot live in peace as long as... Buy or find out more→
My Friend Hitler: And Other Plays
$169.60 – Hardback / Columbia University Press
Mishima (1925-70) wrote four of the five plays selected were during his last three years, and though Sato did not have a theme in mind, he finds that they all relate to the Japanese playwright's theology, an amalgam of the... Buy or find out more→
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
$29.95 – Hardback / Everyman
Bringing together Mishima's preoccupations with violence, desire, religious life and the history of Japan, this novel is based on an actual incident, the burning of a celebrated temple. The novel is a meditation on the state of... Buy or find out more→
Haru No Yuki
$39.30 – Paperback / Shinchosha/Tsai Fong Books
Haru no yuki or Spring Snow, part one of the tetra-logy The Sea of Fertility. Thrice Nobel nominated Mishima Yukio's final work before he committed ritual suicide. This story sets in 1912 Tokyo where the hermetic world of the... Buy or find out more→
Honba
$43.70 – Paperback / Shinchosha/Tsai Fong Books
Honba or Runaway Horses, part two of the tetra-logy The Sea of Fertility. Thrice Nobel nominated Mishima Yukio's final work before he committed ritual suicide. This is an action novel about a secret play that was exposed and... Buy or find out more→
Akatsuki No Tera
$36.90 – Paperback / Shinchosha/Tsai Fong Books
Akatsuki no Tera or The Temple of Dawn, part three of the tetra-logy The Sea of Fertility. Thrice Nobel nominated Mishima Yukio's final work before he committed ritual suicide. This is a psychological novel involving a young... Buy or find out more→
Tennin-Gosui
$31.90 – Paperback / Shinchosha/Tsai Fong Books
Tennin Gosui or The Decay of the Angel, part four of The Sea of Fertility. Thrice Nobel nominated Mishima Yukio's final work before he committed ritual suicide. This is a psychological novel involving a young re-born man, a Thai... Buy or find out more→
La Mer De Fertilite 4 - L'Ange En Decomposition
$26.95 – Paperback / Gallimard
Kinkakuji
$34.50 – Hardback / Shinchosha Company
Kinkaku-ji or The Golden Temple. Using the actual event of the delibrate torching of the Golden Temple in 1950 as the backdrop, Mishima writes of a young man with a stuttering impediment who becomes obsessed with the Golden... Buy or find out more→