Yoko Sugiyama

The wife of Yukio Mishima. She was the daughter of Nei Sugiyama, one of Japan's most famous traditional painters. She met Yukio Mishima when she was a 19 year old college sophmore. They married on May 30 1958.

The Mishimas had two children. The eldest, their daughter, Noriko was born in June of 1959. Their son Ichiro was born two years later.

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