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Yukio Mishima

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Mishiwu and Mishima's Life

Mishima was born into upper middle class family in Tokyo. Was separated from his other siblings by his grandmother at an early age. Had a strange rather twilight childhood up to the age of 12 when his grandmother died and he was reintroduced starkly to the rest of his family. His most famous work which is widely regarded for outside Japan is a tetralogy at the end of his life called the Sea of Fertility. He wrote plays which are both modern and classical in the Japanese tradition.

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