Thoughts on this man? Didn't know whether I should post here or on /lit/, but I would consider him historically significant. Pic related.
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>>1284629
He was real handsome.
Deluded wannabe samurai warrior. Created a paramilitary group as an elaborate ploy to commit suicide. Basically a tumblr-tier retard who wanted to go out with a bang because no one read his drivel.
Influential only to weaboo web-Nazis.
>>1284664
>no one read his drivel
>considering how well his novels were selling and he was being considered for the Nobel prize this is just an untrue statement
What was about his novels that made them so highly regarded?
>>1286886
Read the sea of fertility
Born too late, tried to revive a nationalism that wasn't gonna rise from atomic ashes.
Cool guy tho.
>>1286886
He was a master of style. Don't think this can be translated all that well.
>>1284664
Yeah, no, it's not like he wasn't one of two-three greatest post-war Japanese writers and a huge figure in both modern and traditional Japanese theatre.
>>1284649
He skipped leg days though. You'll never see his full figure, and I think he once sued a newspaper for publishing a photo showing his legs.
>>1284629
As far as his political activities go, it's better to not see them as political, but rather as an artistic performance. There's no reason to believe that Shield Society or his coup attempt were ever aimed to achieve anything other than his suicide in a way that was as aesthetic as possible.
Same with Gabriele D'Annunzio, a very similar figure in Italian fascism, a writer whose work transcended literature and became political. But to view D'Annunzio as a politician will make him seem like a total retard.
