Charles Krafft | Yukio Mishima Severed Head

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Yukio Mishima is the pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka, a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, and film director. Mishima is considered one of the most important Japanese authors of the 20th century; he was nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Literature and was poised to win the prize in 1968 but lost the award to his fellow countryman Yasunari Kawabata.

He is remembered for his ritual suicide by seppuku after a failed coup d’état attempt, known as the “Mishima Incident”.