by Hiroaki Sato
Seiron editorial board, ed. Kempō no ronten. Sankei Shinbun Sha, 2004.
Sekai Heiwa Kenkyūjo (Institute for International Policy Studies), comp. Kenpō Kaisei shian (2005). A semi-governmental institute’s proposal for Constitutional reform. In print and online.
Shiba Ryōtarō. Harimanada monogatari, 1. Kōdansha, 2004.
———. Hitokiri Izō. Shinchōsha, 1969.
———. Junshi. Bungei Shunjū, 1978.
Shibusawa Tatsuhiko. Mishima Yukio: Oboegaki. Chūō Kōron Sha, 1986.
Shidehara Kijūrō. Gaikō 50-nen. Chūō Kōron Shinsha, 1987; originally 1951.
Shiga Naoya. Kozō no kamisama, Kinosaki nite. Shinchōsha, 1985.
Shigeta Mariko. Taruho / Miraiha. Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1997.
Shiine Yamato. Heibon Punch no Mishima Yukio. Shinchōsha, 2007. Shiine, an editor at Heibonsha who covered Mishima for the last three years of his life, recalls his association with “the superstar,” with his own analysis of various ideas of Mishima.
Shillony, Ben-Ami. Enigma of the Emperors: Sacred Subservience in Japanese History. Folkestone, Kent: Global Oriental, 2005.
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———. Politics and Culture in Wartime Japan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.
———. Revolt in Japan: The Young Officers and the February 26, 1936 Incident. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971. Translated into Japanese by Kōno Tsukasa as Nihon no hanran (Kawade Shobō, 1975). The translator is the older brother of Capt. Kōno Hisashi, who was forced to disembowel himself with the fruit knife Tsukasa snuggled into the hospital in the aftermath of the 2.26 Incident.
———, ed. The Emperors of Modern Japan. Leiden, Netherlands, and Boston, Brill, 2008.
Shima Taizō. Yasuda Kōdō: 1968–1969. Chūō Kōron Shinsha, 2005.
Shimomura Kainan. Shūsen hishi. Kōdansha, 1985; originally 1950.
Shinoyama Kishin. Mishima Yukio no ie. Bijutsu Shuppansha, 2000; originally 1995. A collection of Shinoyama’s photos of Mishima’s house.
Silva, Arturo, comp., ed., and intro. The Donald Richie Reader: 50 Years of Writing on Japan. Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press, 2001.
Sledge, E. B. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990; originally 1981.
Sone Hiroyoshi. “Daisaku no kowasa.” Kaien, September 1968, 166–67. This brief essay gives a glimpse into the practice of ghostwriting among some of the prominent writers. As the title of the essay suggests, there is danger in discussing modern Japanese writers without knowing ghostwriting.
Spector, Ronald H. Eagle against the Sun: The American War with Japan. New York: Free Press, 1985.
Sprawson, Charles. Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.
Sugiyama Shigemaru. Kodama Taishō den. Chūō Kōron Sha, 1989; originally 1918.
Sumiya Mikio. Dai-Nippon Teikoku no shiren. Nihon no rekishi series, vol. 22. Chūō Kōron Sha, 1966.
Surya, Michel. Georges Bataille: An Intellectual Biography. Translated by Krzysztof Fijalkowski and Michael Richardson. New York: Verso, 2002.
Suzuki Akira. Shin “Nankin dai-gyakusatsu” no maboroshi. Asuka Shinsha, 1999.
Suzuki Tadashi. Enshutsuka no shisō. Ōta Shuppan, 1994.
Suzuki Yūko, ed. Yamakawa Kikue hyōronshū. Iwanami Shoten, 1990.
Takahashi Masae. 2.26 jiken. Chūō Kōron Sha, 2007; originally 1965.
Takahashi Mutsuo. Jūni no enkei. Chūō Kōron Sha, 1970. With Mishima’s blurb.
———. Nemuri to okashi to rakka to. Sōgetsu Art Center, 1965. With Mishima’s afterword and Yoko’o Tadanori’s wicked cover design.
———. Tomodachi no tsukurikata. Magazine House, 1993.
Takahashi Satoshi. Shimizu Jirochō to bakumatsu ishin. Iwanami Shoten, 2003.
Takahashi Tomio. Seii-taishōgun: Mō hitotsu no kokka shuken. Chūō Kōron Sha, 1987.
Takaya, Ted. T., trans. Modern Japanese Drama: An Anthology. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. Includes plays by Abe Kōbō, Mishima Yukio, Yashiro Seiichi, Yamazaki Masakazu, and Betsuyaku Minoru.
Takeda Taijun. Kizoku no kaidan. Iwanami Shoten, 2000. With Sawachi Hisae’s explanation of the historical background of the novel.
Takeuchi Yoshimi. “Kenryoku to geijutsu.” In Nakajima Kenzō et al, Nihon gendai bungaku zenshū. Vol. 93. Kōdansha, 1968, 346–59.
Tanaka Miyoko. Mishima Yukio: Kami no kagebōshi. Shinchōsha, 2006. A collection of insightful essays Tanaka wrote for each of the Zenshū volumes.
Tanaka Mitsuko. Waga te ni kieshi arare. Bokuyōsha, 1970. With Mishima’s exquisite preface.
Tanizaki Jun’ichirō. Konjiki no shi. Kōdansha, 2005. With Shimizu Yoshinori’s commentary.
———. Tade kū mushi. Shinchōsha, 1995. With Yamamoto Kenkichi’s 1956 commentary.
Tansman, Alan. “Bridges to Nowhere: Yasuda Yojūrō’s Language of Violence and Desire.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, vol. 56, no. 1 (June 1996), 35–75.
Tayama Katai. Futon, Ippeisotsu. Iwanami Shoten, 2002. With Maeda Akira’s 1930 commentary and Sōma Tsuneo’s 1972 commentary.
Terasaki Hidenari and Mariko Terasaki Miller, eds. Shōwa Tennō dokuhakuroku. Bungei Shunjū, 1991. The Shōwa Tennō’s “monologues” prepared soon after Japan’s defeat with annotations and commentary.
Tokuoka Takao. Gosui no hito. Bungei Shunjū. 1999. A series of essays on Mishima by a journalist who did some of the most important interviews with him.
———. Takuyū kikō. Chūō Kōron Sha, 1981; originally 1973. Recalling Mishima with Donald Keene.
Toland, John. The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire. New York: Random House, 1970. Toland begins this famous account of the “decline and fall” with an account of the 2.26 Incident.
Tomita Hitoshi. Rokumeikan: gi-Seiyōka no sekai. Hakusuisha, 1984.
Tōyama Shigeki et al. Shōwa-shi. Iwanami Shoten, 1959.
Trilling, Lionel. Liberal Imagination. New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1950.
Tsunabuchi Kenjō. Kō: Enomoto Takeaki to gunkan Kaiyōmaru no shōgai. Shinchōsha, 1986. Document-based fictionalized account of Enomoto Takeaki and his Dutch-built warship.
Tsunoda Fusako. Issai yume ni goza sōrō: Homma Masaharu Chūjō den. Shinchōsha, 1975. A biography of a general who was tried and shot in Manila for the Bataan Death March. His American defense team appealed the case to the United States Supreme Court, to no avail.
———. Isshi, taizai o shasu: Rikugun Daijin Anami Korechika. Shinchōsha, 1983. A biography of a general who disemboweled himself upon Japan’s surrender, in 1945.
———. Sekinin, Rabaul no shōgun Imamura Hitoshi. Shinchōsha, 1987. A biography of a general who, after release from prison as a war criminal, spent the rest of his life for the welfare of his former soldiers.
Tsurumi Kazuko. Minakata Kumagusu. Kōdansha, 2008.
Tsurumi Shunsuke and Nakagawa Roppei, eds. Tennō hyakuwa: ge no kan. Chikuma Shobō, 1989.
Ugaki Matome. Sensōroku. Hara Shobō, 1968. Vice Adm. Ugaki’s diary during the Pacific War.
Vidal, Gore. The City and the Pillar: A Novel. New York: Vintage International, 2003. This 1948 novel describing a homosexual as protagonist is noted here for American publishers’ hesitation to publish Confessions of a Mask.
———. Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir 1964–2006. New York: Doubleday, 2006.
———. United States: Essays 1952–1992. New York: Random House, 1993. Includes a perceptive essay on Mishima, “The Death of Mishima.”
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Watanabe Akio, ed. Sengo Nihon no saishō-tachi. Chūō Kōron Sha, 2001. Seventeen essays on seventeen prime ministers in postwar Japan, from Higashikuni Naruhiko to Takeshita Noboru.
Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Edited and with an introduction and notes by Robert Mighall. London: Penguin, 2000.
———. Salome: A Tragedy in One Act. Translated by Lord Alfred Douglas. Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1967.
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———. Oboegaki: Bakumatsu no Mito-han. Iwanami Shoten, 1991.
———. Onna nidai no ki. Heibonsha, 1972.
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———. Mishima Yukio: Yūmon no sokoku bōei fu. Nihon Bungei Sha, 1980. Recollections of the days Yamamoto spent with Mishima and the Shield Society.
Yamamoto Shichihei. Aru ijō taikensha no henken. Bungei Shunjū, 1988.
———. Ichi-kakyū shōkō no mita Teikoku Rikugun. Bungei Shunjū, 1987.
Yamashita Kōsaku, director. Sōchō Tobaku. DVD of the 1968 film. Toei Video. Date not given.
Yamauchi Yukihito, ed. Mishima Yukio eiga-ron shūsei. Wise Shuppan, 1999. A compendium of everything Mishima said and wrote about movies.
Yanagita Kunio. Mariko. Shinchōsha, 1980. A biography of the daughter of Terasaki Hidenari and Gwen.
Yashiro Seiichi. Kishu-tachi no seishun: ano koro no Katō Michio, Mishima Yukio, Akutagawa Hiroshi. Shinchōsha, 1985. A playwright/stage director’s recollections of three associates: Akutagawa Hiroshi, Katō Michio, and Mishima Yukio.
Yasuda Yojūrō. Yasuda Yojūrō bunko series. Vol 1: Nihon no hashi (2001); vol. 10: Mōkyō (2000); vol. 29: Sokoku seiron I (2002). Kyoto: Shingakusha.
Yomota Inuhiko. High School 1968. Shinchōsha, 2004.
———. Nihon eiga-shi 100 nen. Shūeisha, 2000.
———, ed. Ōoka Shōhei: Bungaku no unmei. Kōdansha, 1990.
Yoshida Mitsuru. Chinkon senkan Yamato. Kōdansha, 1974.
———. Senchūha no seishi-kan. Bungei Shnjū, 1980.
———. Teitoku Itō Seiichi no shōgai. Bungei Shunjū, 1977.
Yoshida Shigeru. Nihon o ketteishita hyakunen, with Omoidasu mama. Chūō Kōron Sha, 1999.
Yoshimoto Takaaki. Kaitei shimpan: Kyōdō gensō-ron. Kadokawa Shoten, 1982.
Yoshimura Akira. Tengu sōran. Asahi Shimbun Sha, 1994.
Yoshizawa Kenkichi. Gaikō 60-nen. Chūō Kōron Sha, 1990; originally 1958.
Yourcenar, Marguerite. Memoirs of Hadrian. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1963. Translated with Grace Frick. Yourcenar knew that Mishima admired Memoirs of Hadrian. See also Mishima: A Vision of the Void, p. 102.
———. Mishima: A Vision of the Void. Translated by Alberto Manguel with the author. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. A short, sympathetic biographical assessment.
Yuasa Atsuko. Roy to Kyōko. Chūō Kōron Sha, 1984. Yuasa was the model for Kyōko in Mishima’s novel, Kyōko’s ie.
Index
Abbott, George (1887–1995), American man of theater, 305
Abe Jōji (b, 1937), writer, 467–68
Abe Kōbō (1924–93), novelist, playwright, 211, 439, 515, 516, 531
ACCF. See American Committee for Cultural Freedom
Account of Our Divine Sovereigns and Their Orthodoxy, An (Jinnō shōtō ki), 366
“Action and Waiting,” 642–43
“action-oriented” movies, 350–51
“Actors Theater,” 193
Adachi Tōko (1939–2006), flower artist, 732
ADONIS, 442
Aeba Takao (b. 1930), critic, 171
Aeroplane Dudes, The (Hikōki yartachi), 691
Aesthetic of Ending, The (Owari no bigaku), 645
Aesthetics of the Love of Boys, The (Shōnen-ai no bigaku), 691
Affirming the Greater East-Asian War (Dai-Tōa Sensō kōtei-ron), 408
After the Banquet (Utage no ato), 351, 352, 363, 404, 436, 696, 708; English translation of, 389; story of, 353–55
Agawa Hiroyuki (b. 1920), novelist, 593, 700, 702
agrarianism, 464
Ai no fuan. See Anxiety of Love, The
Ai no kawaki. See Thirst for Love
Ai no shissō. See Love Dashes
air raids, 9, 18, 751; B-29, of Tokyo, 122–23, 783; B-29, of Yamanote, 124; casualties, in Tokyo, 116; essay depicting, 117–18; threat to Ōta-chō, Gunma, 116
Airport (movie), 701
AJP. See Association of Japanese Publishing
Akae, 78, 703–4; first issue of, 97
Akama Yuriko (n.d., aka Toyo-san), restaurant maid, 721
Akamon (University of Tokyo nickname), 740
Akatsuka Fujio (1935–2008), manga artist, 678
“Akamon [Red Gate] Incident,” 21–22
Akechi Mitsuhide (1528?–82), warrior–commander, 410
Akihito (b. 1933), 125th Tennō, 58, 217, 315, 755; engagement announcement, 315; marriage with Michiko, 330
Akimoto Keiichi (1930–79), photojournalist, 443
Akita Kazusue (1915–97), kendōka, 481, 677
Akiyama Shōtaro (1920–2003), photographer, 314
Akutagawa Hiroshi (1920–81), actor, stage director, 194, 239, 258, 285, 393, 736
Akutagawa Ryūnosuke (1892–1927), writer of short stories, 193, 247, 261, 280, 499, 501, 632, 648, 679
Alain-Fournier (Henri Alban-Fournier, 1886–1914), French author, 240
ālaya-vijnāna, 683
Albee, Edward (b. 1928), American dramatist, 383
Alcock, Rutherford (1809–97), British consul, 33
Aldini, Giovanni (n.d.), Italian sculptor, 383
Alfred A. Knopf, 70, 277, 287, 293, 294, 389, 432, 437, 673; Keene translations, 294; translations of Japanese novels, 272, 273
Ali, Muhammad (b. 1942), American boxer, 592
All About Marriage (Kekkon no subete), 324
All-Campus Joint-Struggle Conference, 585
Allied Powers’ bombings of Germany, 107
Altman, Robert (1925–2006), American film director, 303
Amai mitsu no heya. See Room of Sweet Honey, The
Amai mitsu no yorokobi. See Joy of Sweet Honey, The
Amano Takeo (n.d.), army major, 371
American Committee for Cultural Freedom, 225, 290; as advocate of anticommunist socialism, 224; correspondents of, 224
American critics, reviews of Japanese novels, 272–74
American National Theatre and Academy, 382
American-style capitalism, 559
Amis, Kingsley (1922–95), English novelist, 493
Anami Korechika (1887–1945), minister of the army, 128, 129, 374, 514, 771, 785; seppuku of, 373
Andersen, Hans Christian (1805–75), Danish author, 335
Andō Gumi, yakuza group, 467
Andō Noboru (b. 1926), yakuza, actor, writer, 467–68
Andō Shin’ya (1927–2000), translator of French literature, 285
Andō Teruzō (1905–36), army officer, 365
androphiles, 181
Angaur, Battle of, 465–66
Animal Entanglement, 420
Anna de Noailles, Comtesse (1876–1933), Romanian-French writer, 6
75–76
ANTA Matinee Series, 382
ANTA. See American National Theatre and Academy
anticommunism, 165, 198–99, 224, 352, 418, 516, 529, 534, 581, 600–601, 617. See also communism; Communist Party
anti-Security Treaty movement, 558. See also US-Japanese Mutual Security Treaty
anti-Tōjō sentiments, 108
anti–Vietnam War movement, 533–56; community of warriors, 546–49; documentary on North Vietnam, 535; Fatherland Defense Corps, 536–41; “Gewalt struggle,” 533; intellectual’s support to, 534; killing of Yamazaki, 533; opposed construction of airport, 540; protest against Satō, 535–36; rally against war, 534–35; splitting of Zengakuren, 534; violence during, 533–34
anti-Yoyogi Factions, 534, 616
Anxiety of Love, The (Ai no fuan), 196
Ao no Jidai. See The Blue Age
Aoi no Ue, 294, 382
Aoi sanmyaku. See Blue Mountain Range, The Aoshima Kenkichi (d. 1936), army officer, 371 Aoshima Yukio (b. 1932–2006), governor of Tokyo, 571
Aoto zōshi hana no nishiki-e, 349
Apollo, 307
APOLLO (issue of ADONIS), 442
Apollo no sakazuki. See Apollo’s Cup
Apollo’s Cup (Apollo no sakazuki), 222
Arabian Nights, The, 478, 502, 518
Araki Seishi (1907–81), historian, 473, 475, 529; Fukushima association with, 474; met Mishima at Kumamoto Station, 474; Mishima’s letter to, 473, 476
Arias, Roberto (“Tito”) (1918–89), Panamanian diplomat, 438
Aristocrats’ Staircase, The (Kizoku no kaidan), 377, 378, 379
Arisugawa Takehito (1862–1913), Taruhito’s adopted son, fleet admiral, 45
Arisugawa Taruhito (1835–95), imperial prince, army general, 38
Arita Hachirō, (1884–1965), diplomat, minister for foreign affairs, 351, 357, 363; as ambassador to China, 351; candidate of, against Azuma Ryōtarō, 351; divorced Azekami, 353; elected to House of Representatives, 352; as foreign minister, 351–52; lawsuit against Mishima for invasion of privacy, 353, 355–56, 393; Mishima and publisher apology to, 355; opposition of, to Japanese-German anticommunism pact, 352; suspension of Chūō Kōron, 353
Arlen, Harold (1905–86), American songwriter, 306
Armance, 172, 233