Mishima Yukio:His Inner Biography (Tokyo) - Mishima Yukio:His Inner Biography by Kobayashi Yuji: Mishima wore a homosexual mask and made use of the concocted mask of homosexual's idiosyncratic psychology and logic in an attempt to disguise or conceal or nullify his much more shameful and dishonorable - to him as a Japanese - behaviors during the war and thus justify himself in his semiautobiographical Confessions of a Mask. (Mishima, Ginzburg, mask, homosexual, Barthes, Kamikaze, Dilthey, text, confession, shame)