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 * Hiroshi Akutagawa (1920-1981) – a Theatre director, Actor, The eldest son of Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Mishima's work Kantan (one of Five Modern Noh Plays) was performed by his direction. The two were comrades in Kumonokai (雲の会, "Cloud Association"), a literary movement group presided over by Kunio Kishida in 1950-1954, and Bungakuza. Even after being estranged from each other, Mishima continued to present his books to Akutagawa. Akutagawa, who was excited to read A Beautiful Star, wanted to dramatize it into a play, but it did not come true. "Mishima, he is a genius," which was said to be the topic of Mishima in the conversation with his wife Ruriko, had been not changed.


 * Fumihiko Azuma (1920-1943) – a Special friend, Writer, Literary comrade in Gakushūin days. He was five years older than Mishima, and had been living in bed at home because of tuberculosis. Mishima published a doujinshi Aka-e (赤繪) with him and Yoshiyasu Tokugawa in 1942. Azuma and Mishima had been exchanged letters for about two years before Azuma died at the age of 23. According Azuma's father, Mishima had continued to visit Azuma’s grave every year on his deathday until Mishima own self-determination. Mishima made an effort to publish the book Fumihiko Azuma Works (1971), and wrote his memories with Azuma in the preface, one month before his death. Mishima's letters to Azuma and Tokugawa were compiled and published in 1999 entitled Yukio Mishima: Collection of Teenage letters.


 * Kōbō Abe (1924-1993) – a Novelist, Playwright. Abe has different political ideas and styles from Mishima, but two were many similarities and relationships, both liked science fiction. Mishima prized Abe's Friends, The Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another, The Ruined Map. Although there are conflicting points in the dialogue, two are cooperative with each other. Abe said that Mishima was a "master of dialogue" with a sense of humor. One day in 1968, Abe and Mishima had a talk overnight about Prague Spring, Abe said "I had a dream to Czechoslovakia. I was going to go into exile in Czecho someday. My dreams were broken, I'm sad." The words touched Mishima's heart.


 * Jōji Abe (1937-2019) – a Writer. Former member of the Ando-gumi yakuza, Former flight attendant of Japan Airlines. During the yakuza era, he worked as a bouncer of the gay bar where Mishima had attending, and became acquainted with him. Mishima later wrote a popular novel Fukuzatsu na Kare (複雑な彼) (1966), a story featuring Abe's half-life, and the main character's name "Miyagi Jōji" became part of Abe's pen name "Abe Jōji".


 * Shintaro Ishihara (1932-) – a Writer, Politician, Former Governor of Tokyo. He who read Mishima's Forbidden Colors "interestingly and thrillingly" when he was a student, made his literary debut in Season of the Sun. Mishima, who was a very understanding of Ishihara's literature, was instrumental in compiling his collection of works, and was advocating Ishihara's full of conceit as a favorable one. However, in later years, the disagreement between the two gradually became appeared, and the relationship was separated. Mishima said that even if he gave up his life, what he should protect was the "Three Sacred Treasures" and the "principles that guarantee the wholeness of culture", but Ishihara argued that what he should protect was "self". Mishima once scolded Ishihara's way of criticism from inside of the Liberal Democratic Party to which he belongs, and the unethical behavior with a triumphant look toward the journalism. After Mishima's death, Ishihara sometimes criticized his way to die, but regretted that Mishima who had an acute mind was no longer in Japan and said it was "tedium".


 * Ichikawa Raizō VIII (1931-1969) – a Kabuki actor, Film actor. He starred in the films Enjō (1958) and Ken (1963) based on Mishima's works. Mishima, who visited the filming location of Enjō, said, "Raizō, who have cropped his hair close, there is no better role than him even if you looking around the film world, as I had insisted before." Later, Mishima encouraged Raizō and praised his acting as the arson priest, saying, "That kind of loneliness is hard to come by, but you've probably poured everything you've drawn from your life into that role." The film The Frolic of the Beasts, which was planned to star in the project by Raizō, was made by others due to his busy schedule. Raizō also wanted to play the role of a young officer in the February 26 Incident, and, the stage performance of Spring Snow was not come true due to his illness.


 * Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) – a Novelist. Mishima continued to praise Kawabata's literature and made a great contribution to winning the Kawabata Nobel Prize in Literature by writing testimonials. The two literary works were based on the mental structure that denied the postwar period and the aesthetics of die young. Mishima in his twenties, had been a tutor for Kawabata's daughter (adopted daughter, Masako). When Kawabata refused to congratulate him on the parade commemorating the 1st anniversary of the formation of Tatenokai, Mishima was very disappointed. Since then, the relationship between the two has changed subtly and conclusively. After Mishima's death, Kawabata suddenly engaged in political activities as if he made atonement for Mishima, such as participating in an election campaign with the support of Akira Hatano, who ran for the governor of Tokyo. At that time, Kawabata sometimes talked to ghost of Mishima, "Hello there, Mishima.", "Oh, it's you Mishima. Did you come to support him too?", so the people beside him felt creepy.


 * Kyōko Kishida (1930-2006) – a Actress, The second daughter of Kunio Kishida. At the villa of Kunio Kishida, where Mishima went with the members of the circle Hachinokikai (鉢の木会, "Potted tree Society"), he met Kyoko and started to go around with her and her friends. Even after Kyoko became an actress in Bungakuza, two continued to have a close relationship and she was selected as the leading role in Salome directed by Mishima. At that time, Mishima seemed to like Kyoko, and asked Teruko Nagaoka, a member of Bungakuza, about the progress of the relationship between Kyoko and Noboru Nakaya, who later became her husband.


 * Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) – a Novelist. Mishima professed to dislike Dazai, but as he said, "He was a type of writer who intentionally exposed the part that I had hidden," there is also a common nature both, and the similarities with the motif of postwar criticism through the fallen aristocrats (The Setting Sun and Precious Stone Broker) and the main characters who has a sense of alienation from ordinary human life (No Longer Human and Confessions of a Mask), furthermore, there is a commonality that the authors himself goes to death as the rebellions against the postwar world order. At the same time, it is also considered to have a large gap between Dazai, who dared to say, "I thought that suicide was a calculating thing like a worldly wisdom." and showed himself as a confession of the novelist's suffering with the self-caricature, and Mishima, who captured the suicide as a "style" and "artistic and creative act" expressing "sensual beauty".


 * Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1866-1965) – a Novelist. Mishima wrote a 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature testimonial for Tanizaki. Both of them became editorial board members of "Japanese Literature" (80 volumes) published by Chūōkōron Sha. Mishima was praised by Tanizaki for A Beautiful Star, sent a thankyou letter to him. Mishima, who had been familiar with Tanizaki literature since he was a boy under the influence of his grandmother Natsuko, wrote a number of Tanizaki theories and praised his genius as a novelist. At the same time, Mishima criticized, "Tanizaki's literary world is too unnatural because of keeping aloof from the fate of Japanese times and the history.", expounding Tanizaki as a writer who was distorted his literature by ignoring the times, in a different way from the opposite meaning to Kunio Kishida, who had stepped into the battlefield himself during the war and accepted the times, later was purged.


 * Ichiro Murakami (1920-1975) – a Literary critic, Poet, Novelist. Former Imperial Japanese Navy Captain. He once joined the Japanese Communist Party for a moment of time after the war, and soon left. Beyond the ideological differences, two hit it off together, Mishima praised Murakami's "Ikki Kita Theory" (1970) and made it read by Tatenokai members. Therefore, in a dialogue with Murakami, Mishima put Shintaro Ishihara who did not attach much importance to the Emperor, in the same line as Makoto Oda whom Mishima disliked, "Ishihara and Oda are exactly the same person, they are the two sides of the same personality." In the same dialogue, Mishima criticized the politicians who making light of the words, and said, "If a politician said that I'll die in November, he must die.". Murakami heard the news of Mishima's uprising, rushed to the Ichigaya camp. Five years after Mishima's death, he committed suicide by cutting the carotid artery with a Japanese sword at home.