Nagai Naoyuki , also known as Nagai Genba or Nagai Mondonoshō , was a Japanese hatamoto under the Tokugawa of Bakumatsu period Japan.
Nagai Naoyuki
Yukio Mishima , born Kimitake Hiraoka , was a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, nationalist, and founder of the Tatenokai . Mishima is considered one of the most important post-war stylists of the Japanese language. He was considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times in the 1960s—including in 1968, but that year the award went to his countryman and benefactor Yasunari Kawabata. His works include the novels Confessions of a Mask and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, and the autobiographical essay Sun and Steel. 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", according to author Andrew Rankin.
Mishima in 1955
Mishima's self-portrait drawn in junior high school
Mishima at age 19, with his sister at age 16 (on 9 September 1944)
Mishima with his cat (Asahigraph, 12 May 1948 issue). He was known as a cat lover. Yōko (his wife) was jealous of his pet cat, and disliked him petting it.