He was proud of the traditional culture and spirit of Japan, and opposed what he saw as western-style materialism, along with Japan's postwar democracy, globalism, and communism, worrying that by embracing these ideas the Japanese people would lose their "national essence" ( kokutai) and their distinctive cultural heritage ( Shinto and Yamato-damashii) to become a "rootless" people. From his mid-30s, Mishima's right-wing ideology was revealed increasingly. Mishima's political activities made him a controversial figure, which he remains in modern Japan. Mishima's work is characterized by "its luxurious vocabulary and decadent metaphors, its fusion of traditional Japanese and modern Western literary styles, and its obsessive assertions of the unity of beauty, eroticism and death". His works include the novels Confessions of a Mask ( 仮面の告白, Kamen no kokuhaku) and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion ( 金閣寺, Kinkaku-ji), and the autobiographical essay Sun and Steel ( 太陽と鉄, Taiyō to tetsu). He was considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, but the award went to his countryman and benefactor Yasunari Kawabata. Mishima is considered one of the most important Japanese authors of the 20th century.
Yukio Mishima ( 三島 由紀夫, Mishima Yukio, 14 January 1925 – 25 November 1970), born Kimitake Hiraoka ( 平岡 公威, Hiraoka Kimitake), was a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, nationalist, and founder of the Tatenokai ( 楯の会, "Shield Society"), an unarmed civilian militia. Confessions of a Mask, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, The Sea of Fertility
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