Confessions of a Mask Author:Yukio Mishima, Meredith Weatherby (Translator) Confessions of a Mask is one of the classics of modern Japanese fiction. It is the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact that he is unlike other young men. Mishima's protagonist discovers that he is becoming a homosexual in a polite, post-war japan. To survive, he must live behind a mask of propriety.