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Mishima

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Mishima (mē`shēmä), city (1990 pop. 105,418), Shizuoka prefecture, central Honshu, Japan. It is a hot-spring resort, a transportation hub, and a center for dairy processing and mechanical, textile, and paper industries. It is noted for its Mishima (Shinto) shrine and Rakujuen Park.
Mishima
Yukio . 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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By the time Mishima was writing his introductions for Yato's books, he had achieved international fame and was a contender for the Nobel Prize (a recognition he never received).
Editor Ingrams is an author and journalist who now lives in Japan, and she has collected pieces from such noted writers as Yukio Mishima, Matsuo Basho, Angela Carter and Jan Morris and arranges them in geographic sections.
MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS (15) A re-release for Paul Schrader's 1985 biopic of Japanese author Yukio Mishima.
 
 
 
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