/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11230651]

>On November 25, 1970, Mishima and four members of the Tatenokai, under pretext, visited the commandant of the Ichigaya Camp, the Tokyo headquarters of the Eastern Command of the Japan Self-Defense Forces.[18] Inside, they barricaded the office and tied the commandant to his chair. With a prepared manifesto and a banner listing their demands, Mishima stepped onto the balcony to address the soldiers gathered below. His speech was intended to inspire a coup d'état to restore the power of the emperor. He succeeded only in irritating the soldiers, and was mocked and jeered. He finished his planned speech after a few minutes, returned to the commandant's office and performed seppuku. The assisting kaishakunin duty at the end of this ritual (to decapitate Mishima) had been assigned to Tatenokai member Masakatsu Morita, who was unable to properly perform the task. After several failed attempts at severing Mishima's head, he allowed another Tatenokai member, Hiroyasu Koga, to behead Mishima. Morita then knelt and stabbed himself in the abdomen and Koga again performed the kaishakunin duty. This coup is called "Mishima jiken" (三島事件, "Mishima Incident") in Japan.

[Anonymous No.11230667]

>>11230651
Kinda dumb of him to think that a speech would just cause the army to overthrow the government.

Coups take time, effort, organization and resources to pull off and Mishima was either delusional enough (or stupid enough) to think that he could make one by tying one guy to a chair and then giving a speech

[Anonymous No.11230828]

>>11230667
He knew it wasnt going to work he did it on purpose so he could die honorably

It was poetry written in blood, his final work.

[Anonymous No.11230902]

>>11230667
Persistence is the key. Adolf Hitler ended up in prison first time he attempted

[Anonymous No.11230917]

>>11230651
I'm pretty sure that Japanese culture as a whole has the civilizational equivalent of PTSD after being nuked. They've always had a strange, and somewhat disturbing dichotomy between love for cute animals and brutal violence, but lately the second part has been repressed heavily and the former emphasized to an extreme. It has to come out sooner or later, and when it does it'll probably be scary. Like Ned Flanders outburst in the Simpsons tier.

[Anonymous No.11232305]

>>11230917
This is the sort of thing you could say about any nation/culture, its just that youre interested in japan

[Anonymous No.11232506]

>>11230828
Yeah. Its obvious to anyone who has read anything at all by him.

[Anonymous No.11232509]

>>11230917
Not to do with the nukes, just to do with losing the war and realizing they weren't invincible with some kind of God emperor who was perfect. Japan was already heavily westernized even before ww2

[Anonymous No.11232514]

>>11230667
>Mishima was either delusional
he was the definition of delusional

[Anonymous No.11232520]

>>11230917
If Japan tries shit, they're going to be destroyed by China and honestly it would just be karma

[Anonymous No.11232523]

>>11230917
>somewhat disturbing dichotomy between love for cute animals and brutal violence
Everyone, and I mean everyone ever, has had this dichotomy. It's not cultural, it's just built into us.

[Anonymous No.11232524]

>>11232514
At least he was self aware that he was delusional. He was pretty hypocritical himself, "dying for old Japan" when he was one of the first ones to jump into a western way of life (western style literature, lived in a western house etc.)

[Anonymous No.11232534]

>>11232520
I love posts like this, though I rarely see them outside of youtube. It's always made by a person who thinks they've really figured shit out but can't see modern global conflict beyond A vs B.

[Anonymous No.11232589]

t. Weeb

[Anonymous No.11232598]

Mishima BTFO by trans person

[Anonymous No.11232604]

>>11232534
You'll be pissing your pants once we are at war with a global superpower you thought you could just push around retard.

[Anonymous No.11232610]

>be gay revolutionary writer
>work hard to improve myself and Japan
>view my body as an engine of personal and national renewal
>want my country and people to become as strong as I have

>mfw I allow incompetent Morita-kun to destroy what I've created and he fucks it up

[Anonymous No.11232619]

>>11232305
Cutesy shit is nowhere near as common in the west.

[Anonymous No.11232647]

>>11230651
wow, i just heard about this dude from my favorite video game youtuber. he sounds based even though he was gay.

[Anonymous No.11232659]

>>11232647
me again

don't think I actually want to read him, not into romance.

[Anonymous No.11232665]

Kyoko's House is finally getting an english translation

[Anonymous No.11232669]

>>11232647
>>11232659
Is this ironic

[Anonymous No.11232723]

>>11230667
He just wanted a 'beautiful death', he'd been whining about it his whole life. So, when he got the opportunity to pretend to do it, he did so. Really his attempt was artificial and pathetic. Far from honourable and far from beautiful.

Watch from 4:30 onward to see 'Yukio Mishima On Death'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLGMm6c_BCA

[Anonymous No.11232732]

>>11232665
Source?

[Anonymous No.11232741]

>>11232723
>That's why I pray for an honourable death, a death for the sake of something. But like the author of Hagakure, I was born in the wrong era. I'll probably die in bed, after a life spent dreaming of a very different end.

[Anonymous No.11232947]

>>11230667
Mishima was far more concerned with appearances than with influencing anything.

[Anonymous No.11232967]

>the shield society
>a bunch of ragtag gay dudes Mishima met at gay bars

[Anonymous No.11232981]

>>11232967
From hat I understand, it was mostly right-leaning college students.

[Anonymous No.11232985]

Why is it that ever time something resembling a coup happens in Japan, it's always an "incident"
The 2-26 "incident"
The Mishima "incident"

[Anonymous No.11233003]

>>11232981
who were also gay

[Anonymous No.11233854]

Right wing nationalists and traditionalists are pathetic larpers?? Who would’ve guessed!!

[Anonymous No.11233921]

>>11230917
Japs are cursed

[Anonymous No.11234123]

>Natsu did not allow Mishima to venture into the sunlight, to engage in any kind of sport or to play with other boys; he spent much of his time alone or with female cousins and their dolls.[7]

>Mishima returned to his immediate family when he was 12. His father, a man with a taste for military discipline, employed parenting tactics such as holding the young boy up to the side of a speeding train. He also raided Mishima's room for evidence of an "effeminate" interest in literature and often ripped apart the boy's manuscripts.