Monday, August 11, 2008

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Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima was one of the iconic Japanese writers, and none symbolizing the spirit of a country whose value higher the honor and looked humiliated, first by its defeat in World War II, then the long US-imposed settlement, and finally by the introduction of a value system contrary to Japanese traditions. Mishima was a critic of democracy and capitalism, and a staunch advocate of imperialism that was destroyed after the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. His literary work is an argument against the vacuum of values \u200b\u200band spirituality that Japan suffered a side effect of progressive westernization of the country. Specifically tetralogy The Sea of \u200b\u200bFertility , is his argument against the lack of values, and the summit his literary work. Mishima's life was a mass of contradictions, alternated his flirtations with death and suicide with an exaggerated cult of the body that gave an impressive physique, and denied his latent homosexuality as an accursed inheritance, homosexual relations as he was leaving Japan only , while in their country of origin was married and had two children. In 1967 he joined the Japan Self-Defense Forces, and formed the Tatenokai (Shield Society), a militia composed of patriotic young people studying martial arts. Mishima acted in several films in the last years of his life, leading to co-direct one of the adjustments his work. Mishima The end came in 1970, wrapped in a spectacular ritual suicide known as hara-kiri in the West, but whose correct name is the seppuku and hara-kiri than not used in Japan to be considered vulgar. It was a common practice among the samurai, who rejected natural death, preferring to opt for a glorious death. So, before you see your life dishonored by a crime or offense, resorting to this act to be death (Hara-kiri means "belly cut"). Mishima, true to the principles of the samurai, he entered the November 25, 1970 with several members of the Tatenokai and handcuffed to a commander of the SDF, then out to a balcony and addressing the soldiers in an emotional speech that would be his epitaph: see Japan getting drunk on prosperity and sinking into a void of spirit. We will restore its image and making death ... The intention of the speech was to provoke a coup that reinstated the imperial power, turning the minds of the soldiers. All you got is that the soldiers present booed him and laugh at him, something that should touch the already battered honor of Mishima. Then undertook the seppuku, tearing his stomach with a katana. In a second step of the ritual a partner must behead the suicide. The charge was a member of the Tatenokai that was rumored lover of the writer. Unfortunately this solemn moment was not too honorable, and after several failed attempts to execute another colleague was beheaded. Then the partner also committed suicide just as Mishima. So, if they decide to invite to dinner Mishima, please make sure the sushi is properly cooked or put you on living blood and guts perdidito a matter of honor for Japan.

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