As Mishima's career as a writer begins to meet with success, he is forced to grapple with the psychological consequences of the death of his beloved sister and the defeat of Japan in the Second World War. 

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Bibliography:

Inose, Naoki, and Hiroaki Sato. PERSONA: a Biography of Yukio Mishima. Stone Bridge Press, 2020.

Nathan, John. Mishima: a Biography. Little, Brown, and Company, 1974.

Stokes, Henry Scott. The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995.

Mishima, Yukio. Confessions of a Mask. New Directions, 1958.

Cover Image: Mishima, photographed in 1956.

Opening Theme: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op. 95, B. 178 by Antonín Dvořák.

Closing Theme: "1957- Award Montage" by Philip Glass, performed by the Kronos Quartet.