Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.

This trauma also provided material for the later story Shi o Kaku Shōnen (詩を書く少年? "The Boy Who Wrote Poetry") in 1954. However the writer Jiro Fukushima publiYukio Mishimad a revealing homosexual correspondence between himself and the famed novelist. Private life

In 1955 Mishima took up weight training and his workout regimen of three sessions per week was not disrupted for the final 15 years of his life.

He is also remembered for his ritual suicide by seppuku after a failed coup d'état. Mishima is considered one of the most important Japanese authors of the 20th century.