by Hiroaki Sato
Bibliography
Mishima was a prolific writer with wide-ranging references to Japanese and foreign literature and arts. In his life of forty-six years, he penned thirty-four novels, more than one hundred and seventy short stories, nearly seventy plays (most of them staged during his lifetime), six hundred sixty poems, and a great many essays, reviews, and blurbs. He had more than three hundred thirty taidan, “dialogues,” which, along with zadankai, “group discussions,” are popular among Japanese magazine editors. His writings, including more than eight hundred letters—a great many more were lost or withheld from publication—and sixty-five taidan and zadankai transcripts, required forty-five volumes to cover in the second (and the latest) attempt for “complete works,” Mishima Yukio zenshū (Shinchōsha, 2000–2006). Of these forty-four volumes, volume 41 is dedicated to his readings, talks, and such reproduced on seven CDs; volume 42, of nine hundred pages, to chronology and various bibliographies; a hokan (supplementary volume), of another nine hundred pages, to a collection of writings missed in earlier volumes plus an index; and a bekkan (extra volume) to the film Yūkoku on DVD.
The Mishima chronology in volume 42 begins with Mishima’s paternal grandfather Hiraoka Sadatarō’s birth, on June 4, 1863, and ends with an exhibition to mark the eightieth anniversary of Mishima’s birth and thirty-fifth anniversary of his death, on April 23, 2005.
Mishima’s works are also published in a large number of paperback and other editions. From those editions, only those cited in the notes because of some other writers’ afterwords and those notable for some other reasons may be found on the list below. As is usually the case with similar compilations by Japanese publishers, most do not give the names of editors. Unless noted, Japanese books on the list are all published in Tokyo.
A great many of Mishima’s writings exist in English translation and, no doubt, many more are being translated. But in principle they are not listed here.
Agawa Hiroyuki. Inoue Seibi. Shinchōsha, 1986. A biography of Japan’s last admiral. ———. The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy. Translated by John Bester. Tokyo, New York, San Francisco: Kodansha International, 1979. A biography of Yamamoto Isoroku, who planned the Pearl Harbor attack
———. Yonai Mitsumasa. Shinchōsha, 1982. A biography of Japan’s last minister of the navy. He served as prime minister, in 1940.
Akita, George. Evaluating Evidence: A Positivist Approach to Reading Sources on Modern Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2008.
———. Foundations of Constitutional Government in Modern Japan: 1868–1900. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967.
Akitsu Takeshi, ed. Mishima Yukio goroku. Taka Shobō, 1993.
Akiyama Shun et al. Mishima Yukio. Shōgakukan, 1990. Gunzō special Nihon no sakka, vol. 18.
Andō Takeshi. Mishima Yukio “Nichiroku.” Michitani, 1996. Day-to-day chronicles of Mishima’s life, beginning with Nagai Naomune and ending with an entry on the staging of two plays of Mishima in June 1996. Interspersed with quotations from various sources not clearly identified. Identified as Nichiroku in the Notes.
———. Mishima Yukio no shōgai. Natsume Shobō, 1998.
Aoe Shunjirō. Ishihara Kanji. Chūō Kōron Sha, 1992.
Araki Nobuyoshi. Satchin. Shinchōsha, 1994. A photo album of children in the early 1960s.
Azuma Fumihiko. Azuma Fumihiko sakuhinshū. Kōdansha, 2007. With Mishima’s foreword (originally published in March 1971 when the collection came out) and Yamaoka Yorihiro’s commentary.
Bargen, Doris. Suicidal Honor: General Nogi and the Writings of Mori Ōgai and Natsume Sōseki. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2006.
Barnett, Erin, and Philomena Mariani. Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945. International Center of Photography, 2011.
Barr, Pat. The Deer Cry Pavilion. London, Melbourne, Toronto: Macmillan, 1968. An at times jaundiced account of Japan’s Westernization, from 1868 to 1905. The title refers to the Rokumeikan as a symbol of that process.
Bataille, Georges. Erotism: Death and Sensuality. Translated by Mary Dalwood. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1957.
Bird, Kai, and Lawrence Lifschultz, eds. Hiroshima’s Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History and the Smithsonian Controversy. Branford, CT: The Pamphleteer’s Press, 1998.
Bram, Christopher. Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America. New York: Twelve, 2012.
Brothers Ćapek, The. R. U. R. and The Insect Play. Translated by P. Selver and adapted for the English stage by Nigel Playfair. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961.
Bunce, Willliam K. Religions in Japan: Buddhism, Shinto, Christianity. Rutland and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1955. A report of the Occupation’s Civilian Information and Education Section prepared in 1948.
Bōjō Toshitami. Hono’o no gen’ei. Kadokawa Shoten, 1971. The author’s association with Mishima.
Bywater, Hector C. The Great Pacific War. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991; originally 1925. The book predicted the US-Japanese war with strategic details. A new edition was published to mark the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbor.
Castile, Rand. The Way of Tea. Tokyo and New York: John Weatherhill, 1971.
Chandler, David P. A History of Cambodia. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1986.
Clausewitz, Carl von. On War. Translated by Anatol Rapoport. London: Penguin Books, 1968; originally 1908.
Cœdès, George. Angkor: An Introduction. Translated and edited by Emily Floyd Gardiner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986; originally 1963. Has a photo of what is supposed to be a stone statue of Jayavarman VII, the “Leper King.”
Cohen, Theodore., Remaking Japan: The American Occupation as New Deal. Edited by Herbert Passin. New York: The Free Press, 1987
Coote, Stephen. W. B. Yeats: A Life. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1997.
Dalby, Liza. Kimono: Fashioning Culture. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993.
Dan Kazuo. Shōsetsu: Dazai Osamu. Iwanami Shoten, 2000; originally 1949.
Date Munekatsu. Saiban kiroku: “Mishima Yukio jiken.” Kōdansha, 1972. A close account of the Mishima Yukio Incident trial, with abundant citations of reports, court statements, and decisions.
Dazai Osamu. Ningen shikkaku, Ōtō. Kadokawa Shoten, 2001.
———. Shayō. Shinchōsha, 1993.
Dickins, F. D. Parkes den. Part 2 of The Life of Sir Harry Parkes, Sometime Her Majesty’s Minister to China and Japan. Translated by Takanashi Kenkichi. Heibonsha, 1984.
Dienstag, Joshua Foa. “Nietzsche’s Dionysian Pessimism.” The American Political Science Review, vol. 95, no. 4 (December 2001), 923–37.
Doak, Kevin M. “Building National Identity through Ethnicity: Ethnology in Wartime Japan and After.” Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 27, no. 1 (Winter 2001), 1–39.
Dōmoto Masaki. Kaisō: Kaiten-tobira no Mishima Yukio. Bungei Shunjū, 2005. A stage director’s recollections of his association with Mishima.
Donleavy, J. P. The Ginger Man. New York: Grove Press, 1988. This sex-saturated 1955 novel is worth mentioning here because of US publishers’ indecisions on publishing Confessions of a Mask.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov. Translated by Constance Garnett. New York: Random House, 1996.
———. Demons. Translated by Richard Peaver and Larissa Volokhonsky. New York: Vintage Books, 1995.
Dower, John. W. Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq. New York: W. W. Norton, 2010.
———. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of Word War II. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999.
Edogawa Ranpo. Kurotokage. Edogawa Ranpo shū. Vol. 9. Kōbunsha, 2002.
Ellis, Havelock Ellis. Studies in the Psychology of Sex. Vol. 2: Sexual Inversion. Minneapolis, MN: Filiquarian Publishing. Undated.
Endō Shūsaku. Umi to dokuyaku. Shinchōsha, 1960.
Esenbel, Selçuk. “Japan’s Global Claim to Asia and the World of Islam: Transnational Nationalism and World Power, 1900–1945.” The American Histori
cal Review, vol. 109, no. 4, October 2004, 1140–70.
Etsugu Tomoko. Mishima Yukio bungaku no kiseki. Kōronsha, 1983. A stress on the Mishima genealogy, tracing one branch to the warrior clan, the Taira, hence to Emperor Heijō (also Heizei: 774–824).
Fogel, Joshua A. The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Fuji Masaharu. Fuji Masaharu sakuhinshū. Vol. 1. Iwanami Shoten, 1988.
Fukazawa Ichirō, Narayama-bushi kō. Shinchōsha, 1964.
Fukuda Kazuya, ed. Etō Jun collection. Vol. 3. Chikuma Shobō, 2001.
Fukushima Jirō. Mishima Yukio: tsurugi to kanbeni. Bungei Shunjū, 1998. An account of the author’s time with Mishima. Mishima’s children sued, and won, on the grounds that the book included, without permission, Mishima’s letters. (See note 34, Chapter Twenty.)
Fukushima Jurō. Saitei shiryō: Mishima Yukio. Chōbunsha, 2005. Includes accounts of Mishima’s birthplace and quotations from records related to Hiraoka Sadatarō.
Fukuzawa Yukichi. Bunmei-ron no gairyaku. Edited by Tozawa Yukio. Keiō Gijuku Daigaku Shuppankai, 2009.
———. Fukuō jiden. Edited by Matsuzaki Kin’ichi. Keiō Gijuku Daigaku Shuppankai, 2009.
Funasaka Hiroshi. Eirei no zekkyō: Gyokusai-tō Angaur. Bungei Shunjū, 1966. Mishima edited it, wrote an introduction, and arranged its publication.
———. Hiwa: Palau senki. Kōjinsha 2000; originally 1977.
———. Peleliu-tō gyokusai-sen. Kōjinsha, 2000; originally 1981. Describes the Battle of Peleliu.
———. Seki no Magoroku: Mishima Yukio, sono shi no himitsu. Kōbunsha, 1973. The author gave Mishima the sword he used at Ichigaya.
Gallagher, Michael. Bakudan to ichō. Translated by Ōta Hiroshi. Kōdansha, 1970.
Gayn, Mark. Japan Diary. Tokyo and Rutland: Charles E.Tuttle, 1981; originally 1948.
Gibney, Frank. Five Gentlemen of Japan: The Portrait of a Nation’s Character. Avon, CT: EastBridge, 2003; originally 1953.
Gluck, Carol. Japan’s Modern Myth: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.
Grass, Günter. Peeling the Onion. Translated by Michael Henry Heim, San Diego: Harcourt, 2007.
Gullace, Giovanni. “The French Writings of Gabrielle d’Annunzio.” Comparative Literature, vol. 12, no. 3. (Summer 1960), 207–28.
Guttmann, Allen. The Erotic in Sports. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.
Handō Kazutoshi. “Bungei Shunjū” ni miru Shōwa-shi. 4 vols. Bungei Shunjū, 1995.
———. Shōwa-shi: 1926–1945 and Shōwa-shi: Sengo-hen, 1945–1989. Heibonsha, 2009.
———, ed. Shōwa-shi tansaku 1926–1945. 6 vols. Chikuma Shobō, 2007.
Harootunian, Harry. Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Hashikawa Bunzō. Hashikawa Bunzō chosakushū. Vol. 1. Chikuma Shobō, 1985.
Hata Ikuhiko. Nankin Jiken, Chūō Kōron Sha, 1986.
Hatori Tetsuya, ed. Kawabata Yasunari. Sakka no jiden series, vol. 15. Nihon Tosho Center, 2002.
Hayashi Kentarō. Shōwa-shi to watashi. Bungei Shunjū, 2002.
Hayashi Shigeru. Taiheiyō Sensō. Nihon no rekishi series, vol. 25. Chūō Kōron Sha, 1967.
Hino Ashihei. Tsuchi to heitai, Mugi to heitai. Shinchōsha, 1953.
Hiraoka Azusa. Segare: Mishima Yukio. Bungei Shunjū, 1996; originally 1972. Mishima’s father Azusa’s quirky but valuable comments and reminiscences on his son, interwoven with his wife Shizue’s.
Hiraoka Shizue. “Boru no gotoku.” Originally in the December 1976 issue of Shinchō. Partly included in the Gunzō special, Nihon no sakka series, vol. 18, Mishima Yukio (which see); with excerpts in the chronology, Zenshū 42. Mishima’s mother Shizue’s recollections of her life with her son that include excerpts from her diary.
Hiromatsu Wataru. “Kindai no chōkoku” ron. Kōdansha, 1989.
Hirschfeld, Magnus. Sexual Anomalies: The Origins, Nature, and Treatment of Sexual Disorders. White Plains, NY: Emerson Books, 1956.
Horiguchi Daigaku. Gekka no ichigun. Shinchōsha, 1955; originally 1925. A famous anthology of Horiguchi’s translations of French poetry.
Hosaka Masayasu. Mishima Yukio to Tate no Kai jiken. Kadokawa Shoten, 2001.
Hosoe Eikō. Shashinka: Hosoe Eikō no sekai (A World of Eikoh Hosoe). Seigensha, 2006. A gallery publication. It includes a selection of photos of Mishima Yukio in Barakei.
Hugo, Victor. Four Plays: Marion de Lorme, Hernami, Lucretia Borgia, Ruy Blas. Edited and with an introduction by Claude Schumacher. London: Methuen, 2004.
Ienaga Saburō. Nihon kindai kenpō shisō-shi kenkyū. Iwanami Shoten, 1967.
———. The Pacific War: 1931–1945. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978. A translation by Frank Baldwin of Ienaga’s Taiheiyō sensō, 1968.
Imai Seiichi. Taishō democracy. Nihon no rekishi series, vol. 23. Chūō Kōron Sha, 1966.
Inagaki Taruho. Inagaki Taruho. Chikuma Shobō, 2008. Includes 15 stories.
———. Inagaki Taruho (Inaguaqui Taroupho) zenshū. 13 vols. Chikuma Shobō, 2000–2001. Among them: vol. 1, Issen ichibyō monogatari; vol. 3, Vanilla and Manila; vol. 4, Shōnen-ai no bigaku; vol. 7, Miroku; vol. 8, Akaki seiza o megurite.
Inoguchi, Rikihei, Tadashi Nakajima, and Roger Pineau. The Divine Wind. Annapolis, MD: US Naval Institute, 1958. A translation of an early, idealized Japanese account of the special attack force.
Inose Naoki. Chosakushū. 12 vols. Shōgakukan, 2001–2. Among these selected works are: vol. 3, Magazine seishun-fu: Kawabata Yasunari to Ōya Sōichi; vol. 4, Picaresque: Dazai Osamu den; vol. 5, Mikado no shōzō; vol. 8, Nihonjin wa naze sensō o shitaka: Shōwa 16-nen natsu no haisen; vol. 12, Kurofune no seiki: gaiatsu no Nichibei miraisen-ki. This last describes how both sides on the Pacific predicted and sometimes inflamed the inevitability of the war between Japan and the United States, beginning with books such as Banzai! by Parabellum, the penname of the German author Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff, and The Valor of Ignorance by Homer Lea, both of which appeared in 1909.
———. Kokoro no ōkoku: Kikuchi Kan to Bungei Shunjū. Bungei Shunjū, 2008.
———. Kūki to sensō. Bungei Shunjū, 2007. Touches on the duplicitous terms used for the Self-Defense Forces as a military.
———. Persona: Mishima Yukio den. Bungei Shunjū, 1995. Originally serialized in the weekly Post, from January 6 to October 13, 1995.
Inoue Kiyoshi. Meiji Ishin. Nihon no rekishi series, vol. 20. Chūō Kōron Sha, 1966.
Iriye, Akira. Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War: A Brief History with Documents and Essays. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1999.
Irokawa Daikichi. Kindai kokka no shuppatsu. Nihon no rekishi series, vol. 21. Chūō Kōron Sha, 1966.
Isherwood, Christopher. The Berlin Stories. New York: New Directions, 1963.
———. Diaries: Volume One, 1939–1960. Edited and with an introduction by Katherine Bucknell. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.
Ishibashi Tanzan. Ishibashi Tanzan hyōron-shū. Edited by Matsuo Takayoshi. Iwanami Shoten, 1984.
———. Tanzan kaisō. Iwanami Shoten, 1985.
Ishihara Kanji. Sensō-shi taiken. Chūō Kōron Shinsha, 2002.
Ishihara Shintarō, Taiyō no kisetsu. Shinchōsha, 1957. With Okuno Takeo’s commentary.
Ishii Shirō, ed. Kinsei buke shisō. Iwanami Shoten, 1974.
Ishii Tatsuhiko. “Rokumeikan.” Kokubungaku, July 1986 (Mishima special), 94–99.
Ishikawa Jun. Bunrin tsūshin. Kōdansha, 2010.
———. Edo bungaku shōki. Kōdansha, 1990.
———. Hakubyō. Shūeisha, 1979.
———. Kankanroku. Mainichi Shinbun Sha, 1973.
Isoda Kōichi. Junkyō no bigaku. Tōjusha, 1969.
Itasaka Gō. Kyokusetsu Mishima Yukio: Seppuku to Flamenco. Natsume Shoten, 1997. An attempt to understand Mishima on the conjecture that he tried
to hide the humble origins of his paternal grandfather’s ancestors.
———. Shinsetsu: Mishima Yukio. Natsume Shobō, 1998.
Itō Shizuo. Itō Shizuo zenshū. Jinbun Shoin, 1971.
Itō Shizuo, Tachihara Michizō, Maruyama Kaoru. Nihon shijin zenshū, vol. 28. Shinchōsha, 1968.
Iwami Takao. Kishi Nobusuke: Shōwa no kakumeika. Gakuyō Shobō, 1999. A notable journalist’s assessment of Kishi as a “revolutionary.”
Iwamoto Yoshiharu, ed. Kaishū zadan. With annotations by Katsube Mitake. Iwanami Shoten, 1983. A collection of Katsu Kaishū’s talks, with remembrances of the man by those who knew him.
Iwatani Tokiko and Koshiji Fubuki. Yume no naka ni kimi ga iru. Kōdansha, 1999.
Izumi Kyōka. Kōya hijiri. Shūeisha, 1992. With Yamada Yūsaku’s “Kaisetsu,” Okuda Eiji’s “kanshō” (and a fabulous illustration), and a chronology.
———. Nihonbashi. Iwanami Shoten, 1953. With Satō Haruo’s “kaisetsu.”
———. Shunchū, Shunchū gokoku. Iwanami Shoten, 1987. With Kawamura Jirō’s “kaisetsu.”
———. Uta’andon, Kōya hijiri. Shinchōsha, 2003. With Yoshida Sei’ichi’s 1950 “kaisetsu.”
———. Yashagaike. Kōdansha, 1979. With Nakai Hideo’s “kaisetsu” stressing Mishima Yuko’s admiration of Izumi Kyōka.
Johnson, Chalmers. MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925–1975. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1982.
Judt, Tony. The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
———. Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century. London: Penguin Books, 2009.
Jūzenkai, comp. and pub. Gunshin Wakabayashi chūtaichō tsuitōroku: Ato ni tsuzuku mono o shinzu. Private edition. The title is based on Lt. Wakabayashi’s famous last words for the title, I Trust Others Will Follow Me (Ato ni tsuzuku mono o shinzu).
Kahn, Paul, adapt. The Secret History of the Mongols: The Origin of Chingis Khan. Boston: Cheng and Tsui, 1998.
Kaikō Takeshi. Betonamu senki. Asahi Shinbunsha, 1970.
———. Kaikō Takeshi zen-sakuhin. 12 vols. Shinchōsha, 1974. Among these volumes are Essays 3, which includes Betonamu senki; Shōsetsu 8 and 9, which include Kagayakeru yami and Natsu no yami.