Hundred Years of Mishima — Why Does the World Read Him More Today Than When He Was Alive?
One hundred and fourteen works across twenty-six years — novels, plays, poetry,
criticism. Then, on the same day he delivered the final page of his tetralogy,
he ended his life. Yukio Mishima did not merely write about impermanence —
he made his life his final manuscript. In the year of his centenary, the world
seems more ready than ever to understand the questions he was asking.