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Yukio Mishima was a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, nationalist, and founder of the Tatenokai (楯の会, "Shield Society"), an unarmed civilian militia.
* Mishima was born Kimitake Hiraoka in Tokyo on January 14, 1925.
* He chose his pen name when he was 16.
* Mishima is considered one of the most important writers of the 20th century.
* He was considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, but the award went to his countryman and benefactor Yasunari Kawabata.
* Mishima committed suicide by seppuku on November 25, 1970.
* His death was a shock to the Japanese public and the literary world.
* Mishima's work continues to be read and studied today.
* He is considered a master of Japanese literature.