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Bowie and Mishima
I wasn’t aware that David Bowie was at one time a Yukio Mishima fan, but this blog cites the following quote from Thomas Newton Howard, accompanied by the image above. THOMAS NEWTON SEABROOK: “Bowie...
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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...
View ArticleEikoh Hosoe
The photographer who took the famous “Ordeal by Roses” shot of Mishima will be having an exhibition in June at the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of Japan. Covered here and here. Eikoh Hosoe...
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“Iron and the Soul” by Henry Rollins
I’ve read this piece by Rollins a few times over the years, and it is relevant here for both the weightlifting angle and the Mishima quote. It’s inspired a lot of people. It’s Rollins’ own Sun and...
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Sincerity T-Shirt now available on zazzle
People have been asking me if I was going to make these available for a while. I silk-screened the original batch myself, but I don’t want to get into keeping an inventory of these or shipping them...
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A Thanksgiving Memorial
Mishima's Death Scene, Time Magazine (1970) Note on this Thanksgiving feast day, as you carve at your turkeys and hams, that on November 25th, 1970, Yukio Mishima cut his stomach open. Today marks the...
View ArticleImago Theater stages The Black Lizard in English
The Imago Theater is putting on Mishima’s play “The Black Lizard” in a new English translation. Here’s more from OregonLive. Clips of the Japanese film can be found on YouTube:...
View ArticleRemembering Mishima by Greg Johnson
Greg Johnson, editor of Counter-Currents, posted a brief remembrance of Yukio Mishima earlier this year. Remembering Yukio Mishima: January 14, 1925–November 25, 1970
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