{{short description|Japanese artist}} {{Infobox artist | name = Go Mishima | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Tsuyoshi Yoshida | birth_date = 1924 | birth_place = [[Yokosuka]], [[Japan]] | death_date = {{death date and age |1988|1|5 |1924 |mf=yes}} | death_place = [[Tokyo, Japan]] | notable_works = | movement = | awards = | patrons = | website = | bgcolour = | imagesize = | field = Erotic illustration | training = | works = | influenced by = | influenced = | module= }}
'''Tsuyoshi Yoshida''' (1924 – January 5, 1988), known by the pen name {{nihongo|'''Go Mishima'''|三島剛|Mishima Go}}, was a Japanese [[homoerotic]] [[fetish artist]] and founder of the magazine {{ill|Sabu (magazine){{!}}''Sabu''|ja|さぶ (雑誌)}}. He is noted for his illustrations of "[[Bara (genre)|macho-type]]" men, often with [[yakuza]]-inspired ''[[irezumi]]'' tattoos.<ref name="JOHN"/> Mishima, along with [[Tatsuji Okawa]], [[Sanshi Funayama]], and [[Go Hirano]], is regarded by artist and historian [[Gengoroh Tagame]] as a central figure in the first wave of contemporary gay artists in Japan.<ref name="GAYART"/>
==Biography== Mishima was born in 1924 in [[Yokosuka]], [[Kanagawa Prefecture]].<ref name="TOF"/> At 18, he was drafted into the [[Imperial Japanese Army]], where he had his first homosexual experience with his commanding officer.<ref name="Gallery"/> Upon the end of the [[Second World War]] in 1945, Mishima relocated to [[Tokyo]], where he immersed himself in the nascent [[LGBT culture in Tokyo|gay nightlife of the city]]. Many bars and nightclubs during this era were operated by the [[yakuza]]; Mishima's fascination with their [[crew cut]] hairstyles and [[irezumi]] tattoos would figure heavily into his art.<ref name="TOF"/>
During the late 1950s, Mishima discovered the art of [[Tom of Finland]], who came to influence his own work.<ref name="TOF2"/> In 1955, Mishima met the writer [[Yukio Mishima]] at a gym, and formed a friendship on their shared interest in athletics, [[bodybuilding]], and [[Hypermasculinity|hypermasculine]] sexuality. The two men drew [[artistic nude]]s together as a pastime;<ref name="JGA"/> 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.<ref name="Gallery"/> After Yukio Mishima's [[Mishima Incident|death by ritual suicide]], Go Mishima began to depict more violent material and themes in his art, including [[Bondage (BDSM)|bondage]], [[Sadomasochism|masochism]], and torture.<ref name="TOF"/>
In 1964, Mishima was published in {{ill|Fuzokukitan{{!}}''Fuzokukitan''|ja|風俗奇譚}} and ''Bara'', two of the first magazines in Japan to publish gay and gay pornographic content.<ref name="GAYART"/> He was an early contributor to ''[[Barazoku]]'', which in 1971 became the first commercially circulated gay magazine in Japan. Dissatisfied with the ''[[bishōnen]]'' art style of ''Barazoku'', Mishima founded {{ill|Sabu (magazine){{!}}''Sabu''|ja|さぶ (雑誌)}} in 1974, which focused on images of masculine men, and was more explicitly pornographic.<ref name="TOF"/>
On January 5, 1988, Mishima died of complications from [[cirrhosis]]. A commemorative issue of ''Barazoku'' was published in tribute to Mishima in 1989,<ref name="TOF"/> in which [[Sadao Hasegawa]] referred to him as "a master illustrator of the male physique."<ref name="TOF3"/> The first solo exhibition of Mishima's art was held in 1999, at Gallery Naruyama in Tokyo.<ref name="Gallery"/>
==See also== * [[Homosexuality in Japan]]
==References== {{Reflist|30em|refs=
<ref name=TOF>{{cite web |url= https://www.tomoffinlandfoundation.org/foundation/Tom-Of-Finland-Galleries/art-and-artists/Mishima/goh-mishima-bio.htm |title= Goh Mishima: Biography |last= |first= |date= |website= [[Tom of Finland]] Foundation |access-date= November 21, 2018 }}</ref>
<ref name=TOF2>{{cite web |url= https://www.tomoffinlandfoundation.org/foundation/Tom-Of-Finland-Galleries/art-and-artists/Mishima/index.htm |title= Goh Mishima |last= |first= |date= |website= [[Tom of Finland]] Foundation |access-date= November 21, 2018 }}</ref>
<ref name=Gallery>{{cite web |url= http://www.gallery-naruyama.com/japanese/exhibition/mishima.html |title= Go Mishima (in Japanese) |last= |first= |date= |website= Gallery Naruyama |access-date= November 21, 2018 }}</ref>
<ref name=JOHN>{{cite web |url= http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2009/08/07/the-art-of-goh-mishima-1924%E2%80%931989/ |title= The art of Goh Mishima, 1924–1989 |last= Coulthart |first= John |date= August 7, 2009 |website= John Coulthart Art |access-date= November 21, 2018 }}</ref>
<ref name=GAYART>{{cite book |editor1-last= Tagame |editor1-first= Gengoroh |editor1-link= Gengoroh Tagame |title= Gay Erotic Art in Japan Vol. 1: Artists From the Time of the Birth of Gay Magazines |publisher= Pot Publishing |publication-date=December 19, 2003 }}</ref>
<ref name=JGA>{{cite web |url= http://www.japanesegayart.com/?page_id=1281 |title= Go Mishima |last= |first= |date= |website= Japanese Gay Art |access-date= November 21, 2018 }}</ref>
<ref name=TOF3>{{cite web |url= https://www.tomoffinlandfoundation.org/foundation/Dispatch/DispSu2000/Hasagawa.htm |title= Impressions of Sadao Hasegawa |last= Adonna |first= Steve |date= Summer 2000 |work= The Tom of Finland Foundation |access-date= November 20, 2018 |archive-date= November 21, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181121120339/https://www.tomoffinlandfoundation.org/foundation/Dispatch/DispSu2000/Hasagawa.htm |url-status= dead }}</ref>
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