Yukio Mishima – City of Smoke https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:07:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 The Way of the Perfect Samurai https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1467 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:56:09 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1467 He wrote near the end that his life was divided into four rivers: writing, theater, body, and action. He memorialized all of it through photographs. Some were conventional. When Yukio Mishima came to New York with his wife for a belated honeymoon in 1960, they were photographed on the Staten Island ferry and before the Manhattan skyline, like any tourist couple. ]]>