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"Iwantto sit on rococo furniture wearing Levi's and an aloha shirt; that's my ideal of a life-style." - Yukio Mishima,

Yukio Mishima's suicide in November , with its grim invocation of samurai machismo, is probably the most famous moment of his legend.

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It overshadows everything else, including Mishima's three nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The colourful adventures he enjoyed at the height of his fame - when he was a self-styled kinjaku movie star and a patron of underground gay bars in Tokyo, Paris and Rio - are even less celebrated and this seems a shame, since he was an intercontinental dandy of the highest order.

Raised in what one biographer described as the "darkened sickroom" of his grandmother, Mishima was nicknamed "asparagus child" in high school and escaped the draft in when was declared unfit for military service.

After the war he found a job in the public service but quit after nine months to "dissect myself alive" by writing what became Confes