[4] Upon the end of the Second World War in 1945, Mishima relocated to Tokyo, where he immersed himself in the nascent 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.
[2] 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 Sabu [ja] in 1974, which focused on images of masculine men, and was more explicitly pornographic.
A commemorative issue of Barazoku was published in tribute to Mishima in 1989,[3] in which Sadao Hasegawa referred to him as "a master illustrator of the male physique.