Yukio Mishima, Suicide & Patriotism in Japan.

[Jean-Francois]

Please give me your opinion on the following topic:

Analyze Yukio Mishima’s treatment of suicide in “Patriotism.”

Anything about Yukio, suicide and patriotism in Japan is appreciated.
Thank you very much. :D

[Shidenkai]

I love Mishima Yukio for his life, for his art and his final act.
The suicide for Mishima, is a rebellion act that oppose the interior humanity against the obscure state-system; Patriotism, but also Runaway Horses, is the confirm of necessity of a free spirit.

[Jean-Francois]

Hello Shidenkai:

Thanks for your reply. I need to write a paper on the above subject. Can you recommmend me some articles (from the web) or books? It's okay though if there isn't any. (^_^)

[Shidenkai]

http://www.vill.yamanakako.yamanashi.jp/bungaku/mishima/index-e.html

http://impact.civil.columbia.edu/~fawaz/mishima.html

Those are two of my preferite urls, but now I want to found most; wait my search. Bye. :relief:

[Jean-Francois]

Wow! I didn't expect that he's this good-looking...
Doomo arigato gozaimasu ^_^ !

[Uncle Frank]

how I would rather take a lot of pills & go to sleep.I arrived in Japan about 30 days after he killed himself and it was still a big topic of conversation. It takes a lot of nerve to slice you guts out and signal someone to lop off your head! He sure was a prolific writer.

Frank

[Shidenkai]

http://cityhonors.buffalo.k12.ny.us/city/rsrcs/eng/auth/mis.htm

[Jean-Francois]

Oh-la-la ! Yukio Mishima est tres sexy :winklove:!

[McTojo]

I hope you didn't write that paper on Mishima yet. If you did, shame on you...I would of loved to had given you some amazing insights about the man; things people didn't know about not even his closest friends.

Mishima was not just a man who committed suicide and he wasn't bent on a mission like some may have thought previously.

Please reply to me Francois if you get a chance !

Don't write that paper without me.

[celtician]

Well if there is a need to say to people Mishima was gay but also had militaristic fetishes and let's be thankful he got nowhere in politics in Japland!!!

[JapaneseinCalifornia]

I came by to find hot women...anyways
I asked some japanese about his patriotism on "2ch".
Since I asked in a japanese literature thread, they pretty knew much about his works.
They said what he did in the military base had nothing to do with patriotism, and his suicide seemed to me a kind of mental masturbation to satisfy his deep sexually oriented desire. I think he did not really like military itself but liked him self of being in the military.

If you like Mishima, I strongly recommend Tanizaki as well.
I believe Tanizaki's sense of beauty represents what traditional japanese culture is.
......as addictive as crack

As a japanese, I am glad to see this thread.

[lastmagisuncle]

People should respect the man for his works. Sure he was a functional schizophrenic with deep rooted sexual emotions but that doesn't mean you associate that with his entire work. This man was nominated for the Noble prize three times ! His suicide has more relevance for right-wingers and people who love Japan then say your average outsider ??