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There’s a LiveJournal community based in the Russian Federation devoted to Yukio Mishima. I flipped through the posts and they had some Mishima-related content I’d never seen before.
Мисима Юкио
ru_mishima at LiveJournal – http://community.livejournal.com/ru_mishima/
An American fellow was inspired by Yukio Mishima to study Japanese swordsmanship. He just started a blog titled “American Mishima.”
I recently wrote a piece for The Spearhead, an online anti-feminist men’s magazine, incorporating Yukio Mishima’s story. In part, I did this to honor the 39th anniversary of Mishima’s hara-kiri last week.
“Here come the herbivores”
http://www.the-spearhead.com/2009/11/22/here-come-the-herbivores/
Tags: hara kiri, herbivores, the spearhead
I happened across this excellent essay on revisiting and re-evaluating Mishima’s work.
Tags: Haruki Murakami, Jay McInerney, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Photography show featuring one of Eikoh Hosoe’s famous images of Mishima.
The Provoke Era: Postwar Japanese Photography: Sandra Phillips and W.S. di Piero in Conversation
Tags: eikoh hosoe
Post about graphic design, a cover for an edition of Forbidden Colors and Tadanori Yokoo, poster artist who also did this poster of Yukio Mishima.
More on Tadanori Yokoo here.
h/t Troy Chambers
An interesting article from Japan Echo , specfically dealing with Mishima’s “Eirei no koe.”
Mishima insisted that nucleus of the integrated, organic culture that embraced the chrysanthemum and the sword was none other than “the emperor as culture.” He explains the concept as follows, using the archaic term miyabi (courtly elegance).
Miyabi was the cultural essence of the imperial court and the people’s longing for it, but during troubled times, miyabi could even take the form of terrorism. That is to say, the emperor as a cultural concept held out his hand not only to the forces of state power and order but also to the forces of chaos.
Tags: Crysanthemum and the Sword, Eirei no koe, emperor, Japan Echo, Miyabi, Ruth Benedict, Voices of the Heroic Dead
A smug, pro-post-modernist article that mentions Mishima dismissively (almost in a bitchy way, actually), yet more or less summarizes the fears Mishima expressed about the “spirit” (or psychology) of a castrated Japan a few decades ago. He warned that Japan would become known for “the chrysanthemum” or Ikebana and, well, other “cute” stuff.
The author should know that American young people have also accepted that “there are no absolute answers to anything.”
It’s called relativism. They teach it in universities and on MTV. It could also be called overactive empathy, emotionalism, indecisiveness and fear of taking a stand. If you don’t bother with drawing lines, you can busy yourself with buying Manga and playing video games and chatting on Facebook while Rome burns.
Tags: adbusters, chrysanthemum, Kenzaburo Oe, Ryu Murakami, Takashi Murakami, yukio mishima
http://news.3yen.com/2009-07-02/saint-mishima-now-on-sale/
I was pleased to find this image on http://news.3yen.com/. have never seen this version before. The post itself was in reference to an upcoming auction of some recently discovered Mishima items.
The photo is presumably by Kishin Shinoyama.
Tags: Kishin Shinoyama, saint sebastian
Two of my own Mishima-related pieces of artwork will be featured in this upcoming show in Philadelphia, PA.
Friday, August 7, 2009 Time: 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Jennifer Bates Gallery @ Germ Books
2005 Frankford Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19125… Read More
