Mishima and Masculinity
This article featured in the “politically incorrect” (whatever the fuck that means) Return Of Kings blog. Embodied cognitionJapanphilosophical literatureYukio Mishima
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Conversation between Yukio Mishima and John Bester
A tape recording of a conversation with novelist Yukio Mishima (1925-70) has been found in which he talked about his view of literature and life and death about nine months before he committed suicide by disembowelment. — The Japan News. JapanJohn besterMishimaphilosophical literatureYukio Mishima
Mishima and Bowie
To mark two close but significant Bowie dates (8th and 10th January) once again check out Chris O’Leary’s terrific Pushing Ahead of the Dame “Tulmudic”-like blog. The particular entry I want to bring to your attention is this one featuring Mishima’s influence on Bowie, two names I’ve long since appreciated totally independently of each other. Chris explicitly vindicates…
Yukio Mishima’s death poem
Mishima died on this day in 1970. The very excellent Damian Flanagan marking this event a year ago. The sheaths of swords rattle As after years of endurance Brave men set out To tread upon the first frost of the year. Damian FlanaganJapanphilosophical literatureYukio Mishima
Beauty Itself Became a Deadly Enemy
The very excellent Mishima scholar Donald Keene briefly discusses the English publication of The Temple of the Golden Pavilion almost exactly 57 years ago. What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same…
Is Japan Finally Coming to Terms With Mishima?
Mishima once famously told his wife that “even if I am not immediately understood, it’s OK because I’ll be understood by the Japan of 50 or 100 years time.” The short answer according to the very excellent Mishima scholar Damian Flanagan is “no”. Today marks the 45th anniversary of Mishima’s death. Speaking of which see Yourcenar’s thoughts…
Descending to the depths of Yukio Mishima’s ‘Sea of Fertility’
Damian Flanagan reports (in case you are wondering who Donald Keene is). Also check out Damian’s bio of YM. “The Sea of Fertility,” the leviathan that Mishima left behind, is arguably both the most important Japanese literary work written in the last 100 years and, by far, the least understood. Incorporating ideas from noh theater and…
Ancient town of Mishima
Nice piece especially if one is a Mishima fan and like me one has yet to visit Japan, Japan being one of the very few countries on my travel bucket list: Perhaps this explains why the author Yukio Mishima took his pen name from the city, though the writer claimed that he just happened to be…
Japanese musicians and Buddhist monks plan jazz sutra
This posted on an interesting site. A man who had his jazz cafe swept away by tsunami in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, sent a thank-you card to the company for creating the CD, saying, “We could finally feel like listening to jazz again.” aestheticsJapanJazzmusic
Jazz in Japan
The Japanese people want to thank the United States, New Orleans and Satchmo for giving the world such wonderful music called jazz. A lovely example of the power of this music to spread the joy, the conduit the very special Yoshio Toyama. In Treme (1:5) you may recall a Japanese jazz fan does a good turn…
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