Yukio Mishima: Eternal Exclusion and the Tragic Search for Recognition
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Yukio Mishima was born in Tokyo in 1925. His first long work “The Forest in Full Bloom” was published in a magazine called Bungei Bunka in 1941, when he was sixteen years old. Mishima was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature three times and was particularly popular with many foreign publications.
On November 25, 1970, the very same day that he finished his last novel, Yukio Mishima and several members of his nationalistic Shield Society took over a military base in Ichigaya, which served as the Tokyo headquarters of the Eastern Command of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces. For some time, Mishima had utilized his Shield Society as an endeavor to challenge his country to seriously reconsider the westernized direction that they were taking. When his actions failed to rouse the soldiers at Ichigaya to rise up in revolt, he committed seppuka (ritual suicide). He was only 45 years old.
Includes a number of vintage photographs, a slide show and a documentary short film of Mishima's life.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/yukio-mishima-eternal-exclusion-and-...
On November 25, 1970, the very same day that he finished his last novel, Yukio Mishima and several members of his nationalistic Shield Society took over a military base in Ichigaya, which served as the Tokyo headquarters of the Eastern Command of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces. For some time, Mishima had utilized his Shield Society as an endeavor to challenge his country to seriously reconsider the westernized direction that they were taking. When his actions failed to rouse the soldiers at Ichigaya to rise up in revolt, he committed seppuka (ritual suicide). He was only 45 years old.
Includes a number of vintage photographs, a slide show and a documentary short film of Mishima's life.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/yukio-mishima-eternal-exclusion-and-...
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