Was yukio mishima gay

Mishima's sexual orientation was an issue that bothered his widow, and she always denied his homosexuality after his death. In , the writer Jiro Fukushima published an account of his relationship with Mishima in , including fifteen letters between himself and the famed novelist.

Despite living “openly” as a homosexual the brilliant Japanese author Yukio Mishima () had a “conventional marriage” to Yoko Sugiyama and had two children, a boy and a girl. They married in June at a ceremony at International House in Roppongi, Tokyo.