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THE SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA - Y...

Yukio Mishima was born into a samurai family and imbued with the code of complete control over
mind and body  and loyalty to the Emperor - the same code that produced the austerity and
self-sacrifice of Zen. He wrote countless stories and thirty-three plays  in some of which he
performed. Several films have been made from his novels  including The Sound of Waves   Enjo
which was based on The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with
the Sea . Among his other works are the novels Confessions of a Mask and Thirst for Love and
the short story collections Death in Midsummer and Acts of Worship . The Sea of Fertility
tetralogy  however  is his masterpiece. After Mishima conceived the idea of The Sea of
Fertility in 1964  he frequently said he would die when it was completed. On 25 November 1970 
the day he completed The Decay of the Angel   the last novel of the cycle  Mishima committed
seppuku (ritual suicide) at the age of forty-five.

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