Go Mishima sexuality. The two men drew artistic nudes together as a pastime; Go Mishima began to pursue a career in homoerotic art in earnest with Yukio Mishima's encouragement, and adopted Mishima's last name to use as his pen name in tribute. After Yukio Mishima's death by ritual suicide, Go Mishima began to depict more violent material and themes in his art, including bondage, masochism, and torture. In 1964, Mishima was published in and "Bara", two of the first magazines in Japan to publish gay and gay pornographic content. He was an early contributor to "Barazoku", which in 1971 became the first
Yukio Mishima promising career. However, Mishima had exhausted himself so much that his father agreed to his resigning from the position during the first year of employment in order to devote himself to writing. Mishima wrote novels, popular serial novellas, short stories and literary essays, as well as highly acclaimed plays for the Kabuki theater and modern versions of traditional Noh drama. "Kemono no Tawamure" (獣の戯れ, "The Frolic of the Beasts") is considered a parody of the classical Noh play "Motomezuka," written in the fourteenth century by the playwright Kiyotsugu Kan'ami. Mishima began the short story in 1945, and continued to work