Michiharu Mishima

was a novelist, playwright and drama critic. His pen name was Shōdō Mishima (三島 章道 Mishima Shōdō).

Early life

J. S. Wilson and Michiharu Mishima, Chief Scout of Japan, at the national training camp at Lake Yamanaka, on the slopes of Mount Fuji, December 1952.

Mishima was born in Azabu, Tōkyō, to an aristocratic family. His grandfather Michitsune Mishima had been ennobled as a viscount in the new Japanese nobility in 1884, while his father was Yatarō Mishima, the 8th Governor of the Bank of Japan. His mother was Marquis Takauta Shijō (四条 隆謌 Shijō Takauta)'s third daughter, Kaneko (加根子), through whom he was related to the old court aristocracy and the greater Fujiwara clan. from the Boy Scout Association of Japan for meritorious deeds and services. In 1961, he was awarded the Bronze Wolf by the World Organization of the Scout Movement for exceptional services to world Scouting. From 25 February to 7 March 1965, he wrote his serial Scout Jūwa (スカウト十話) for the Mainichi Shimbun, his final work. Mishima died on 20 April, and a (日本連盟 Nippon Remmei) funeral service was held on 24 April.

Mishima's handwriting can be found on the stone monument at 'Japan's First Boy Scout Camping Ground' on the banks of Lake Biwa in Omatsuzaki (Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture).

Political career Mishima was a member of the House of Peers and the House of Councillors and was parliamentary vice-minister to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Literature 和訳孟子 Wayaku Mōshi (1918, Daidōkan) パトロールシステム Patrol System (1925, author Roland Philipps) 少年団指揮者教範 Shōnendan Shikisha Kyōhan: Aids to Scoutmastership (author Robert Baden-Powell) 満州及上海に正しき日本を観る 附国際聯盟と我裏南洋 Manshū Oyobi Shanhai ni Tadashiki Nihon o Miru: Fukokusai Remmei to Wagaura Nan'yō (1932, Tōgakusha) 世界少年団劇集 Sekai Shōnendan Gekishū (1933, Boy Scouts Association of Japan) 郊外健児教育 Kōgai Kenji Kyōiku (1933, author: ロアゾウ, Boy Scouts Association of Japan) 日満健児工作 Nichiman Kenji Kōsaku (1934, Tōgakusha) 伊太利は奮起した Itarii wa Funki Shita (1939, Jitsugyō no Nihon Sha) 少年団概論 Shōnendan Gairon (1939, author: ロアゾウ, Kyōikukenkyūsha) 世界児童劇集 附少年団劇集 Sekai Jidō Gekishū: Fushōnendan Gekishū (1940, Shōkasha) 戦時下の世界青少年運動 Senjishita no Seikai Shōnendan (1940, Nihon Hyōronsha) 少年団指導の理念と実践 Shōnendan Shidō no Rinen to Jissen (1942, Sangakushobō) 音なき交響曲 Otonaki Kōkyōkyoku (1958, Hōbunkan) 十人百話-9 ボーイスカウト十話 Jūnin Hyakuwa-9: Boy Scout Jūwa (1965, Mainichi Shimbun)

Films 平和の勇士 Heiwa no Yūshi (1926, Film Institute of Social Education) monochrome, silent film

Operas 歌劇 ボーイスカウト Kajū: Boy Scout (1925, Takarazuka Revue/Yukigumi)

Ancestry Ancestry