Yukio Mishima

Person · Open Library

Born

14 January 1925

Died

25 November 1970

Works

505

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Group

Origin

Spain

Active from

1999

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

327

Total plays

867

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Increased oxidative stress in obesity and its impact on metabolic syndrome

   · 2004 · cited 4,458x

2. Paradoxical Decrease of an Adipose-Specific Protein, Adiponectin, in Obesity

   · 1999 · cited 3,709x

3. Suppression of basal autophagy in neural cells causes neurodegenerative disease in mice

   · 2006 · cited 3,365x

4. Block copolymer micelles for drug delivery: design, characterization and biological significance

   · 2001 · cited 2,928x

5. Pembrolizumab versus chemotherapy for previously untreated, PD-L1-expressing, locally advanced or metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (KEYNOTE-042): a randomised, open-label, controlled, phase 3 trial

   · 2019 · cited 2,836x

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Quotes

• “I've never done much, but I've lived my whole life thinking of myself as the only real man. And if I'm right, then a limpid, lonely horn is going to trumpet through the dawn some day, and a turgid cloud laced with light will sweep down, and the poignant voice of glory will call for me from the distance — and I'll have to jump out of bed and set out alone. That's why I've never married. I've waited, and waited, and here I am past thirty.”
• “According to Eshin's "Essentials of Salvation," the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land.”
• “By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive the Truth. And first we must know that each of the petals has eighty-four thousand veins and that each vein gives eighty-four thousand lights.”
• “Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent in every decision. However grave the matter at hand might be, if one neglected it for long enough, the act of neglect itself would begin to affect the situation, and someone else would emerge as an ally. Such was Count Ayakura's version of political theory.”
• “We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. What Hagakure is insisting is that even in merciless death, a futile death that knows neither flower nor fruit has dignity as the death of a human being. If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death? No death may be called futile.”
• “All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Named after

snow

Gender

male

Citizenship

Japan

Place of birth

Tokyo

Place of death

Tokyo

Occupation

short story writer

Languages spoken

Japanese

Native language

Japanese

Religion

Yamato-damashii

Notable work

Madame de Sade

Field of work

poetry

Genre

essay

Movement

Postmodernism

Record label

King Records

Sport

karate

Image

Yukio Mishima, 1955 (cropped 850×950 px).jpg

Height

163

Number of children

2

Work location

Japan

Significant event

Mishima incident

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