Prologue
Chapter One: The Hometown
Chapter Two: Grandparents and Parents
Chapter Three: The Boy Who Write Poems (1937-1942)
Chapter Four: Azuma Fumihiko
Chapter Five: First Love (1942-1945)
Chapter Six: The Aftermath of the War (1945-1946)
Chapter Seven: A Bureaucrat or a Writer
Chapter Eight: Confessions (1948-1949)
Chapter Nine: Boyfriends, Girlfriends (1950-1951)
Chapter Ten: Going Overseas (1951-1952)
Chapter Eleven: The Girlfriend (1953-1957)
Chapter Twelve: Kinkakuji (1956-1957)
Chapter Thirteen: Overseas Again (1957)
Chapter Fourteen: Marriage (1958-1959)
Chapter Fifteen: Kyoko’s House (1959)
Chapter Sixteen: The 2.26 Incident and Yukoku (1960)
Chapter Seventeen: Assassinations (1960-1963)
Chapter Eighteen: Contretemps (1963-1964)
Chapter Nineteen: The Nobel Prize (1964-1965)
Chapter Twenty: The Shimpuren (1966-1967)
Chapter Twenty-One: “The Way of the Warrior is to die” (1967)
Chapter Twenty-Two: Passage to India (1967)
Chapter Twenty-Three: The Anti-Vietnam War Movement (1968)
Chapter Twenty-Four: Sun and Steel (Mid-1968-Early 1969)
Chapter Twenty-Five: The Shield Society and Counterrevolution
Chapter Twenty-Six: The Yakuza
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Yangming Philosophy and Revolution Chapter
Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Constitution
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Toward Ichigaya
Chapter Thirty: The Seppuku
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Reviews and excerpts in the Japan Times, History Magazine, Journal
of Japanese Studies, ALA CHOICE, Chronicle of Higher Education,
World Literature Today, Rochester's Three Percent
(http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/) and
journals of comparative literature
Special academic outreach to students and scholars in Japanese
literature, history and culture
Academic promotion to dozens of libraries and universities with
Asian Studies and modern fiction departments, as well as fiction
writing programs, Association of Asian Studies, ALA
Excerpts/features solicited in daily newspaper arts & culture
sections
Pitching author for interview for radio, TV, print and online
outlets
Translator speaking events in New York, NY at Columbia University,
NYU, Japan Society with the Consul-General of Japan
Promotion to Japanese literature blogs and Mishima blogs and
websites like "Headless God: A Tribute to Yukio Mishima," who
provide links to Amazon for purchase
November pub date coincides with 42nd anniversary of Mishima's
death (he committed suicide on November 25, 1970)
Naoki Inose: Naoki Inose is a prize-winning Japanese author and
vice governor of Tokyo.
Hiroaki Sato: Hiroaki Sato is a prize-winning translator of
classical and modern Japanese poetry into English. He has also
translated Mishima's novel, "Silk and Insight," and his dramas, "My
Friend Hitler and Other Plays." Since 2000 Sato has written a
monthly "Japan Times" column, "The View from New York." Since 1998,
he has been an adjunct at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
"Mr. Sato has performed something of a miracle in skillfully and patiently adding layer after layer of information, both about the writer and the social and political context in which he worked, in order to give us not only a comprehensible account of the novelist's complex personal vicissitudes but what is in effect a trenchant commentary on the history of cultural and political life in postwar Japan... Persona now joins a very small group of studies that succeed in portraying, rather than simply sketching, the life of an iconic figure in modern Japanese culture."--J. Thomas Rimer, Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature, Theatre, and Art at University of Pittsburgh "This is a whale of a book--both unusually massive and extremely informative and stimulating... Those who are interested in the brilliantly gifted writer of mid-20th century Japan who is its subject will learn much from this volume, and should be stimulated to go back and read, or re-read, what Yukio Mishima has left us."--Paul McCarthy, The Japan Times "From this biography the reader gains a great sense of the milieu from which Mishima arose, the approaches he took in his cutting-edge writing, and his increased fascination with conservative, hypermasculine Japanese traditions... this is an essential addition to all collections with a strong emphasis on world literature and Japanese history, and for English-reading students of 20th-century Japanese literature."--Library Journal, November 2012 "Naoki Inose's biography is immensely detailed and punctilious and not easy reading for a foreigner not versed in Japanese culture and history... but does show him to have been an extraordinary man, in many respects a sympathetic one, and a writer of extraordinary range... I hope that this biography revives interest in the best of his novels, especially in the tetralogy. "--Wall Street Journal, December 2012 "Personais a book about Japan itself, as filtered through the life of one of its perhaps most important creations... If Japan truly represents the Occident and the Orient as so many would have us believe, it's because of icons like the talented, tragic Mishima."--Will Eells, Three Percent "Mishima's life and his many interests... make for fascinating reading, and Persona is a riveting account."--M.A. Orthofer, The Complete Review "Persona deftly reveals to us the actual man and writer who willingly traded his life for a legend: Yukio Mishima. Lurching forward vivid drama by drama and then backtracking to provide us with context, the biography opens up a whole epoch of sexual, literary, and artistic creativity, guiding us through the fiction, the friendships, and the passions that ultimately made Mishima Mishima." --poet Forrest Gander, 2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist
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