/lit/ - Literature

same with House of the Sleeping Beauties
t-thanks Mishima-san

why did he do it?

>Mishimist
Literally just making words up

How is he viewed by contemporary Japanese?

>>13274545
Yikes. Okay so this one's hard to explain. Let me see if I can give you a quick rundown.

Back in the 19th century there were a bunch of large Samurai families who basically ran Japan. You might have heard of some of them. Toshiba, Miyata, Toyota, etc. When the Edo period entered decline you had this thing called the Genpei war, where the Shogunate rebelled against the Empire to try to expel foreign influence and return to their traditional feudal way of living because at the time, Samurai were forbidden from engaging in commerce and so most of them were broke as fuck and the only thing they had was their social status, and that was rapidly slipping away.

Spoilers, the Samurai lost and the feudal system was abolished, BUT, the families that sided with the Emperor, though they couldn't retain their status and swords and the right to kill people for fun, still needed to be rewarded. The result was the Zaibatsu system. A Zaibatsu is essentially a corporation that includes bank, multiple manufacturing and R&D departments, organized crime, and government lobbying, and is owned by a single family.

Imagine if Wells Fargo, General Motors, Microsoft, the Italian Mafia, Safeway, Viacom and the NRA were all the same organization. A bank, two huge companies, a criminal enterprise, a food service, and a media service AND a political lobby. All owned by one family. And this was common knowledge. Everyone knows about it, it's perfectly legal.

That's a Zaibatsu. And the Zaibatsus run Japan. They regulate crime to make sure that nothing is disrupted, they regulate the economy to make sure they all profit, and since they lobby the government, they also ensure that the law permits them to do this. Japan is effectively still run by Edo-period Samurai clans, they just wear suits now.

>>12730740
I'm definitely going to read the rest of the Sea of Fertility. I'm hooked on Mishima.

I'll start

>ISTP

Perhaps the only literary answer to this thread is revolutionary homosexuality

>>9532537
>Mishima was 6'6" and considered so threatening by his Japanese contemporaries they refused to have photos taken while standing next to him

>>9497022
>he had nightmares about Mishima for two or three hundred nights in a row
This would be horrifying.

>>9485797
/lit/ is and always has been a gay friendly fascist board. Nazi fags have the best aesthetics

EVERY GROUP MUST FOUND ITSELF IN THE SHARED SUFFERING OF BEING TOWARD DEATH. EVERY GROUP MUST BE A GROUP OF WARRIORS.

>>9055985
Who said they don't?

>>8832028
MIYAZAKI

LONG HAVE I SLUMBERED

YOU MUST SUCCEED WHERE I FAILED

TAKE THIS SAMURAI SWORD AND MY ASSLESS CHAPS

Mishima's death was the fulfillment and ultimate expression of every facet of his being - aesthetic, political, sexual, philosophical, physical, artistic, personal. I have a feeling he was an overman.

>>8807775
sorry deleted my post it wasnt perfect enough for my autism

>>8682266
Mental illness can be very aesthetic.