His first novel, Confessions of a Mask, gained him national fame when he  was only 23, and he would later go on to write films, Kabuki plays, and the Sea of Fertility tetralogy.
Referring to the Japanese national character he elaborates on the coexistence of elegance and brutality. No  surprise then, that one of his most famous novels involves the main character setting fire to the object of his  lifelong love in order to possess it. His first novel, Confessions of a Mask, gained him national fame when he  was only 23, and he would later go on to write films, Kabuki plays, and the Sea of Fertility tetralogy. FTP name this Japanese writer who committed ritual suicide soon after Kawabata won a Nobel Prize in 1968, the author of  The Temple of the Golden Pavilion.
Referring to the Japanese national character he elaborates on the coexistence of elegance and brutality.
{Mishima} Yukio