"Yukio Mishima's Cosmology." West Coast Review 10, l (June 1975): 48–53.
Inspired by Yukio Mishima, who tried to stage a coup d'état among Japan Self-Defense Forces then committed suicide after the coup was failed, Asada enlisted in the SDF after finishing his studies.
The name of the label is directly inspired by one of Yukio Mishima's essay published in 1968, Taiyō to tetsu (Sun and Steel).
His credits included two films loosely based on Russian and Japanese novels: Love and Death (as executive producer), which was based on a Russian novel and directed by Woody Allen in 1975, and The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea in 1976, which was based on a Yukio Mishima novel.
(The name of Barbieri's track is taken from the novel The Temple of Dawn by the acclaimed Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima.)
Their band name was inspired by the self given death of Japanese author Yukio Mishima who, after a failed coup d'état, committed suicide according to ancient Japanese tradition (seppuku or hara kiri) as a gesture of public protest.
Yukio Mishima | Yukio Hatoyama | Mishima | Mishima Station | Mishima, Shizuoka | Yukio Tani | Mishima (film) | Yukio Ozaki | Yukio Ninagawa | Yukio Kasaya | Yukio Hattori | Yukio Aoshima | Heihachi Mishima | 26 May 1945. Corporal Yukio Araki, holding a puppy, with four other pilots of the 72nd ''Shinbu'' Squadron at Kaseda, Kagoshima |
The most recent kaishakunin of the 20th century was Hiroyasu Koga, who beheaded the novelist Yukio Mishima during Mishima's seppuku.
He has written critical studies of the major Japanese writers Yasunari Kawabata, Naoya Shiga, Osamu Dazai, and Yukio Mishima, and edited books on Asian nationalism (especially ethnic nationalism, religious nationalism, and cultural nationalism), globalization, and pan-Asianism.
In 1970, famed author Yukio Mishima and one of his followers committed public seppuku at the Japan Self-Defense Forces headquarters after an unsuccessful attempt to incite the armed forces to stage a coup d'état.
Sotoba Komachi (卒塔婆小町) is one of the stories in Five Modern Noh Plays by Yukio Mishima.
The Sea of Fertility, a series of four novels by Japanese writer Yukio Mishima