The Lady Aoi

Original languageJapanese

GenreNoh

SettingA hospital in modern Japan

The Lady Aoi is a play written by Yukio Mishima in 1954, which appears in his Five Modern Noh Plays. It modernizes the noh drama Aoi no Ue.^[1]

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Bibliography
Prose books	Confessions of a Mask (1949) Thirst for Love (1950) Forbidden Colors (1951, 1953) Death in Midsummer and Other Stories (1952) The Sound of Waves (1954) The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1956) Kyoko's House (1959) After the Banquet (1960) The Frolic of the Beasts (1961) Beautiful Star (1962) The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1963) The School of Flesh (1964) Silk and Insight (1964) Acts of Worship (1965) Sun and Steel (1968) Life for Sale (1968) The Sea of Fertility Spring Snow (1969) Runaway Horses (1969) The Temple of Dawn (1970) The Decay of the Angel (1971)
Short stories	"Death in Midsummer" (1952) "Patriotism" (1960) "Star" (1960)
Drama	Five Modern Noh Plays (1950–1955) The Lady Aoi (1954) Iwashi Uri Koi Hikiami (1954) Rokumeikan (1956) Madame de Sade (1965) My Friend Hitler (1968)
Film	Patriotism (1966)
Works about	The Moon in the Water (1979) Mishima: A Vision of the Void (1981) Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) 11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate (2012) Persona: A Biography of Yukio Mishima (2012)
Related topics	Conservatism in Japan Tatenokai Yukio Mishima Prize The Lady Aoi (Bahram Beyzai production)

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