After nearly a quarter century, the paradox of "Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters ... his famous recreation of the martyrdom of St. Sebastian) and eventually staging it onscreen in his short ...

I once owned a photograph of Yukio Mishima squatting in the snow ... or—posed like St. Sebastian—has been tied to a tree and pierced by arrows. What We’re Reading Discover notable new ...

Such is the riddle of Saint Sebastian, a middle-aged Roman soldier ... influential to the famed 20th-century Japanese author Yukio Mishima; in Mishima’s 1949 novel Confessions of a Mask, the ...

The Japanese have a storied tradition of writer suicides, but the reams of foreshadowing and grand-gesture media spectacle of Yukio Mishima ... a Derek Jarman St. Sebastian.

The only saint who really cuts it as a cover-boy is St Sebastian, that curly-haired ... as there are people doing the explaining. To Yukio Mishima, the Japanese writer and keen sado-masochist ...

Examining the canon of critical musings on Yukio Mishima, Marguerite Yourcenar's work might be favorably compared alongside Henry Scott-Stokes, John Nathan and Damian Flanagan's biographies.

"I don't like the weak and the sick sort of people that commit suicide," says a young man in Yukio Mishima's "The Decay of the Angel." "But there is one variety I accept. People who commit suicide ...

One of post-war Japan’s most controversial figures, Yukio Mishima was an author, poet, playwright and actor who became an increasingly vocal far-right nationalist in the 1960s. Disheartened by ...