Michiharu Mishima

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Michiharu Mishima
三島 通陽
Tōkyō
, Japan
DiedApril 20, 1965(1965-04-20) (aged 68)
NationalityJapanese
Other namesShōdō Mishima (pen name)
Occupation(s)Novelist, playwright, drama critic
Known forCo-founder of the Boy Scouts of Japan

Viscount Michiharu Mishima (三島 通陽, Mishima Michiharu, January 1, 1897 – April 20, 1965) was a novelist, playwright and drama critic. His pen name was Shōdō Mishima (三島 章道 Mishima Shōdō).

Early life

Michiharu Mishima, January 1953
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

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.[1] His younger sister was married to Yoshi Hijikata
.

He was a Peers School graduate, and succeeded his father as the third Viscount Mishima in 1919.

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.

Scouting

Mishima formed the nationwide Boy Scouts of Japan with Count

Bronze Wolf by the World Organization of the Scout Movement for exceptional services to world Scouting. From February 25 to March 7, 1965, he wrote his serial Scout Jūwa (スカウト十話) for the Mainichi Shimbun
, his final work. Mishima died on April 20, and a (日本連盟 Nippon Remmei) funeral service was held on April 24.

Mishima's handwriting can be found on the stone monument at 'Japan's First Boy Scout Camping Ground' on the banks of

).

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:
    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

Ancestry

Ancestry[1]

Ancestors of Michiharu Mishima
8. Mishima Matsushima
4. Viscount Mishima Michitsune (1835-1888)
2. Viscount Mishima Yatarō (1867-1919)
1. Viscount Mishima Michiharu
24. Daigo Teruhisa (1760-1801)
12.Shijō Takaari (1792-1857)
25. Hachisuka Sachiko (1771-1838)
6. Marquess Shijō Takauta (1828-1898)
3. Lady Shijō Kaneko
14. Nakai Yukimasa
7. Hijikata Haruko (d. 1908)

External links

References

  1. ^ a b "Genealogy". Reichsarchiv (in Japanese). Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  2. ^ 䝪䞊䜲䝇䜹䜴䝖日本連盟 きじ章受章者 [Recipient of the Golden Pheasant Award of the Scout Association of Japan] (PDF). Reinanzaka Scout Club (in Japanese). 2014-05-23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-08-11.
Scouting
Preceded by Chief Scout of the Scout Association of Japan
1951–1965
Succeeded by