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>>13254701
Yukio was the last holdout of the Japan - hell, of the world - that existed at the turn of the 20th century. And even he couldn't hold the tide back.

>>13117782
>>13117825
Yukio was beyond Chad.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/11/21/general/yukio-mishimas-enduring-unexpected-influence/

>Mishima’s severed head, still sporting his “Seven Lives for the Nation” headband, would come to rest on the red carpet and eventually be snapped by an Asahi photographer for the front-page of that evening’s edition, the biggest selling evening edition in the country’s history.

>>A public memorial service for Mishima took place at Honganji Temple in Tsukiji on Jan. 24, 1971, and attracted a crowd of around 10,000 people. Middle-aged men threw ¥1,000 and ¥5,000 notes onto the altar. Housewives with babies on their backs had tears in their eyes. A private service inside the temple earlier that day had been led by novelist Yasunari Kawabata as chief mourner, who regretted that he had won the Nobel Prize for literature instead of his erstwhile protege.

>In the intervening 45 years, countless words have been written about the incident, with writers managing to find a host of literary, psycho-sexual and narcissistic reasons why Mishima died that morning.

>Mishima’s influence manifests itself in the most unexpected of places. For example, the leader of the Bosnian Serbs during the Bosnian war — Radovan Karadzic, currently charged in the Netherlands with 11 counts of war crimes, including genocide and crimes against humanity — was a passionate fan of Mishima, compelling novelist Taro Miwa to investigate how Karadzic’s appreciation of Mishima connects to the unfolding of modern Serbian history.

>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.”