In works such as Confessions of a Mask and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Yukio Mishima intertwines the written language with the pictorial in his carefully constructed world around beauty, violence and death, and his photography series with photographer Eikoh Hosoe in 1961-62 was published as Ba-Ra-Kei. In Yukio Mishima, Eikoh Hosoe and the Ordeal of Roses, Çağla Özbek questions the tension between writing and appearing, literature and image; she examines the series in which the role of the tragic figure that Mishima, the controversial writer of the 20th century, wrote for himself is photographed in different fictions, in other words, the visual testament of the author.