Acts of Worship (三熊野詣, Mikumano Moude) is a 1965 short story collection by the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.

The title story is the tale of a Professor's visit to three Kumano shrines, accompanied by his shy and submissive middle-aged housekeeper, and his reasons for doing so.

[5] This collection of short stories relates back to Mishima's personal life in different ways.

On a rainy day, the teenage Akio meticulously breaks up with his girlfriend in a tea shop in the Marunouchi Building.

An autobiographical story about a group of young, fashionable Japanese people with Western names in the '50s who attend a party near a beach.

Raisin Bread follows Jack, Keeko, Gogi, and Peter that lives in a world full of jazz and music.

The story is highly oriented on Jiro’s internal pessimist thoughts about the young generation, his own future and view of life (words that can be directly related to Mishima himself).

Now living in medieval Kamakura, he describes the visions of Christ he experienced to a deaf and dumb boy after climbing a hill behind the Zen temple of Kenchoji.

The story continues by talking about Anri's horrific past of being sold as a slave in Egypt, Persia, and India.

In India, Anri became a disciple of a Japanese Zen Master named Daigaku back to Japan.

First published in 1946, this early story brought Mishima recognition in the Japanese literary world.

Thirty minutes later the boys come back and find an empty rope hanging on the tree.

Fujimiya explains that when he was young he was in love with a girl named Kayoko, but her parents had forced them to break up.

After he left to go to university, Kayoko died of an illness, and Fujimiya vowed to remain single for the rest of his life.

Before she died, Kayoko suggested they visit the three shrines of Kumano, and Fujimiya replied, half-joking, that he would take her when he was sixty.

Jiro is described as having a lean body, tan skin, and a single-minded devotion to samurai.

Furthermore, throughout the short story, Jiro has been shown to be "as hollow as the decadent society he inhabits" (Soloman, 1990).