How Yukio Mishima led me to Christianity

How Yukio Mishima led me to Christianity

Fifty-three years ago, Japan’s most famous writer took a short sword and sliced open his abdomen, disemboweling himself. As prescribed by the ancient ritual of seppuku, his second was standing by to slice off his head at the same time; it ultimately took three strokes of the blade. Yukio Mishima, novelist, playwright, poet, screenwriter, and actor, was 45 years old. He and a few members of his right-wing paramilitary group, the Shield Society, h…