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did this guy really commit sepuka? what a fucking madman.

>> No.16590970

look at those cum gutters

>> No.16590982

>>16590966
Scared of aging

>> No.16591014

In order to die a beautiful death one must seppuku when they're in peak physical condition

>> No.16591025

>>16591014
Yes.
His death vs. Unamuno's.

>> No.16591352

>>16590966
He did. Did it for real and actually cut his belly which many real samurai didn't. But his kaishaku-nin fucked it up.

>He forced the dagger into his body with all his strength. Following the blow, his face went white and his right hand started to tremble. Mishima hunched his back, beginning to make a horizontal cut across his stomach. As he pulled at the knife, his body sought to drive the blade outward; the hand holding the dagger shook violently. He brought his left hand across, pressing down mightily on his right. The knife remained in the wound, and he continued cutting crosswise. Blood spurted from the cut and ran down his stomach into his lap, staining the fundoshi a bright red. With a final effort Mishima completed the crosscut, his head down, his neck exposed.

>Morita clenched his wrists on the hilt of the sword. As he watched, Mishima toppled forward on his face onto the red carpet. Morita brought the sword crashing down. Too late. The force of the blow was great, but the sword smacked into the red carpet on the far side of Mishima. He received a deep cut in the back and shoulders. “Again!” the other students called out. Mishima lay groaning on the carpet, smothered in his own blood and twisting from side to side. Intestines slid from his belly. Morita struck once again. Once more his aim failed. He hit Mishima’s body, not the neck. The wound was a terrible one. “Once more!” Morita had little strength left in his hands. He lifted the glittering sword for the third time and struck with all his might at Mishima’s head and neck. The blow almost severed the neck. Mishima’s head cocked at an angle to his body; blood fountained from his neck. Furu-Koga came forward. He had experience in kendo, in Japanese fencing. “Give me the sword!” he said to Morita. With a single chop he separated body and head.

>> No.16591409

that must have hurt a lot

>> No.16591419
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>>16590966
> mfw it was a cold jap blade and not your monstrous euro dick that rearranged Mishima's guts
Life isn't fair.

>> No.16591436

>>16591352
i coomed

>> No.16591486

>>16591014
is that really what they believe

>> No.16591492

>>16591352
Pick your friends properly

>> No.16592096

He was a man who dedicated his life to a samurai aesthetic and that should be respected.

It's a shame his ritual suicide was fucked up in such an an aesthetic way.

>> No.16592527

>>16590966
>5'1"

lol manlet cope

>> No.16592871

>>16591352
I was planning on reading some Mishima biography and I always pictured I'd read Marguerite Yourcenar's because she's great, but this one (Life and Death of... by Henry Scott Stokes) seems well written.

Has anyone read both and compared them?

>> No.16592989

>>16591352
This is beyond my comprehension. It makes me feel queasy and scared and alive all at once. Just the idea that someone escaped the bugman existence terrifies and sends me running for cover. Holy shit my spirit just threw up into the void

>> No.16593006

>>16592096
>It's a shame his ritual suicide was fucked up in such an aesthetic way.
I disagree. Like the failed coup it was meant to be this way. It was even MORE based

>> No.16594543

>>16590966
narcissist

>> No.16594953

>>16590966
He actually committed sambuca. Pretty rad.

>> No.16594969

>>16592527
He made the most of the cards he was dealt, what have you done?

Who is the one coping?

>> No.16594976

>>16591352
I love that he more or less described his own death, written it down, more than a decade before this.

>> No.16594988

>>16592989
Take your meds

>> No.16594994

Samurai were scum who pillaged, raped, and murdered on a whim.

>> No.16595010

>>16594994
based /pol/ historian

>> No.16596296

>>16590966
it was a movie, dude (fiction)

>> No.16596617

>>16592871
Not really but Marguerite is basé