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Yukio Mishima

Kimitake Hiraoka ( , Hiraoka Kimitake; 14 January 192525 November 1970), known by his pen name Yukio Mishima ( , Mishima Yukio), was a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, ultranationalist, and the leader of an attempted coup d'état that culminated in his seppuku (ritual suicide). Wikipedia