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Mishima

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Mi·shi·ma  (m-shm, msh-mä), Yukio Originally Kimitake Hiraoka. 1925-1970.
Japanese author best known for The Sea of Fertility (1970), a tetralogy which explores the development of modern Japanese ideals.

Mishima [ˈmɪʃɪmə]
n
(Biographies / Mishima, Yukio (1925-1970) M, Japanese, WRITING: novelist, WRITING: short-story writer) Yukio (ˈjuːkɪəʊ). 1925-70, Japanese novelist and short- story writer, whose works reflect a preoccupation with homosexuality and death. He committed harakiri in protest at the decline of traditional Japanese values


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