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Patriotism and the Flesh
“On looking into each other’s eyes and discovering there an honorable death, they had felt themselves safe once more behind steel walls which none could destroy, encased in an impenetrable armor of...
View ArticleThe Solemn Protection of the Gods
“Their lives were lived beneath the solemn protection of the gods and were filled with an intense happiness which set every fiber in their bodies trembling.” - Yukio Mishima, Patriotism
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A Man’s Face
“A man’s face changes after he has given all he has for some purpose.” - Yukio Mishima, “Sword” Acts of Worship
View ArticleTechnocracy
“The present is the age of technocracy (under the leadership of technicians); differently expressed, it is the age of performing artists.” - Yukio Mishima, Mishima on Hagakure
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Purity and its glorification
“We must resurrect a faith in purity and its glorification.” - Yukio Mishima, Mishima on Hagakure
View ArticleThe law
“The law is an accumulation of tireless attempts to block a man’s desire to change life into an instant of poetry. Certainly it would not be right to let everybody exchange his life for a line of...
View ArticleThe Restoration
“…we, never seeking power and giving no thought to personal advancement, go forth to certain death to become the foundation stones for the Restoration.” - Yukio Mishima, Runaway Horses
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Purity
“Purity, a concept that recalled flowers, the piquant mint taste of a mouthwash, a child clinging to its mother’s gentle breast, was something that joined all these directly to the concept of blood,...
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The God Shelf
In the Mishima story, “Patriotism,” the characters pay homage to what is translated as the “god shelf.” “On the god shelf below the staircase, alongside the tablet from the Great Ise Shrine, were set...
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Mishima “Sincerity” T-Shirt Design
"Sincerity" T-Shirt - Yukio Mishima's severed head I did a block print of this basic design about a year ago. Several of the prints are for sale at this week’s “Germophilia” show in Philly. There are...
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