where do I start with this beautiful faggot?
Confessions of a Mask
>>7477858
whenever I see this pic I think what a totally self absorbed deranged lunatic he was.
Sailor who fell from grace with the sea
Temple of the golden pavillion
Sea of fertility
>>7478187
This
>>7477925
Tu quoque
I think Mishima is at the top of my fucklist
>>7477925
>loves his country's culture
>self absorbed lunatic
come on
>>7479197
the picture is the definition of cringe
imagine some teenager taking a b&w picture of himself posing with a cowboy hat and a revolver
same thing
>>7479205
I think you're just jealous.
>>7479208
i think you're just a weeb in denial.
pic related, europeans doing the same thing.
>>7479219
That's me paying homage to Mishima.
>>7479189
was he a bottom?
>>7479219
>megadeth
>>7477925
he's being a bit campy; he was gay. have you never met a gay person?
>>7477858
Patriotism
Thank me later.
>>7479205
If that teenager didn't end up committing the U.S. version of seppuku, it's not the same thing.
>>7479224
I'm vers so it's nbd either way
If there's an English translation of the tell-all Jiro Fukushima wrote about his relationship with Mishima tho then you might be able to find out
>yfw Mishima was considering marrying now-Empress Michiko back when she was just a commoner
>>7479237
so you're saying mishima is the japanese equivalent of a sperg school shooter? how are you disagreeing
>>7479272
He tried to overthrow the Japanese government in an attempt to return to an imagined authentic Japanese state (pre-Western intervention) that could only be kicked off with the return to power of the emperor. He killed no one but himself once he realized that wasn't going to happen. You're gonna have to think a bit harder to come up with the U.S. equivalent of all that.
>>7479205
why is that wrong if he structures his life around the ritualistic following of the cowboy ideology?
why is that wrong if he tries a coup d'etat as a pretext to kill himself in the traditional fashion of cowboys?
mishima was deluded but he was in it 100%, body and soul. and he seemed to have a good mind.
he was so strong that his aide couldn't even decapitate him properly and killed himself in shame.
>>7477925
>>7479205
dumb yank scared of anything authentic
make sure you keep that ironic distance between you and the world, lest someone think you have real convictions
>>7479237
>tfw you will never visit Japan when samurai were still a thing
I understand why he did it
>>7479230
Yeah, Patriotism is a great start, one of the most stunning short stories I've had the pleasure of reading.
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is a good followup
>>7479197
>loving your country's culture.
come on
>>7480209
It's easy to say such a thing as a westerner. Our nations no longer have any culture, but to man whose country was in the midst of that process, you can't really blame him. All that had given life meaning was being degraded or crushed.
>>7479313
>dumb yank scared of anything authentic
it's mishima who distanced himself from reality.
>make sure you keep that ironic distance between you and the world, lest someone think you have real convictions
mishima was a Japanese Don Quixote with a peter pan complex. replace don Quixote's sense of chivalry with muh emperor and teenage mix ups of violence and beauty and there you go.
>>7479197
he loved his idealistic notions of it more than your average Japanese person. he didn't realize he was doing that, that's why he was ridiculed by the gathered soldiers before killing himself.
>>7480218
he was a madman who would sacrifice sanity for idealized notions of "culture" or even his ideas of art. he thought art was more important than a man's life since art could last longer. that's deranged and juvenile as fuck.
>>7480661
>he thought art was more important than a man's life
do you not believe this?
>>7480661
Children value Art over life?
>>7480661
>that's deranged
"'Formerly, all the world was mad,' say the most refined, and they blink...
One has one's little pleasure for the day and one's little pleasure for the night: but one has a regard for health.
'We have invented happiness,' say the last men, and they blink.'"
"The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race is as ineradicable as the flea; the last man lives longest."
>>7480663
life in all its imperfections is the greatest art.
I would destroy the most valuable pieces of art to save someone who valued their own life and the lives of others. I would do it every time without hesitation.
when you're a teen you get really romantic about a lot of things. I consider myself a creative person. I write music and fiction. I treasure the connections that people make way more. it's organic and alive. art lives too through inspiration but you can't compare it to the impact a person can have on another person.
>>7480661
>deranged and juvenile
das you my man
>>7480692
pussy
>>7480730
not pussy enough to act like a teenager when I'm a grown man...unlike you.
>>7480692
i hope someone beats you to death with some nice art, then films that, christening it as art, and then beats your fruity children to death with it, and then everyone gets bored of the genre before it gets any more meta
go fuck yourself
>>7480748
Rude
>>7480745
teenagers don't hold beauty as the highest form of good
>>7480748
my fruity children? but it's mishima and his followers who are fruity, mate. didn't you know?
>>7480692
This is an incredibly teenager thing to post.
>>7480762
teenagers romanticize artistic notions way more than adults. they are discovering ideas for the first time.
>>7480795
no. it's terribly cheesy...I won't argue that. but it's perfectly reasonable.
>>7480818
where does romanticising come into it?
have you never experienced beauty?
leave your yank town and go to Florence asap
>>7480840
>have you never experienced beauty?
sure I have. there is nothing finer than your mum's poonanny, mate.
>>7480661
>he thought art was more important than a man's life
patrician
You don't
>>7479313
>>7480218
>Our nations no longer have any culture
Do you even know what culture is? where do you thnk culture is found? Is culture a mere euphanism for what you find in a museum or somthing that only "older" and more "primitive" societies have?
Get your shit together
>>7477858
the movie
what's the best translation for Mishima? a friend who speaks Japanese says they're all shit but I'm not going to learn nip so I don't care
>>7480692
>I consider myself a creative person. I write music and fiction
You are probably a capitalist SJW idiot, who has Ideology ruling him.
>>7479224
>he hasn't read Confessions
>>7480856
This desu senpai
Or Confessions
>>7483323
what is left to rule you when you have no ideas to work with? I'm not gonna go out and read zizek or anything but I am curious.
>>7483323
>posts on one of the last corners of free speech on the internet
>the freest possible form of human to human interaction in the history of mankind
>still uses the same old boring "SJW"
Oh how boring this Internet, and how repetitive 4chan
>>7479280
you dont get it. he knew he wasnt going to overthrow anything. if you read his books, youd know it was all an act, a way to die.
>>7483811
wish I had an honorable way to die tbqh
hoping for a war soon
>>7483323
You're the one suckered into ideology to try and pidgeonhole random anons like that. youre totally oblivious to yourself.
>>7480856
It's pretty great, the movie is also beautiful.
>>7483701
And your prose is so purple they should have it in a Pride Parade.
Now get in line.
>>7482947
this is culture
>>7483811
>you dont get it
>the intentional fallacy
His motif of performance and ritual was much more likely an expression of his gay identity in a Japan that rejected homoeroticism out of an internalization of Western values in an attempt to seem modern to their Western allies.
>>7482947
I've thought about this a lot.
I feel like the kind of culture he's talking about is the sum total of the particular pointless things that an isolated society organically grows over time.
>>7484440
lol
>>7483811
I imagine one of many reasons he wanted to die young was to be immortalized in a more youthful image. He was weary of old age. People but into his bullshit "artistic excuses" but the reality is he was immature was a flashy/hammy kind of guy.
>>7483042
pls help
