New Mishima-related artwork found on Flickr:
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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.
Eikoh Hosoe
http://www.eikoh-hosoe.jp/index.html
and on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eikoh_Hosoe
Here’s an article about another exhibition that too place a few years ago.
Japan Times: EIKOH HOSOE
Photographer chronicles an alternate Japanese history
Tags: eikoh hosoe, ordeal by roses
This tattoo design is a variation on Mishima’s original design for the Tate no kai’s flag, etc. I changed the “wheel” design found on the orginal to a skull, which seemed particularly appropriate. I don’t think Mishima would object.
Tattoo:
Sea Tramp Tattoo Co. (My favorite old school tattoo joint)
207 SE Grand Ave
Portland, OR 97214-1114
Tattoo Artist: Eric
The original flag design (found online) can be seen below:
Tags: tate no kai, tate no kai symbol, tatenokai, tatenokai flag, yukio 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 now read and enthused – in typically vociferous fashion – about art, literature, and classical music; painting, previously an intermittent distraction, became a full-time hobby. Many of his own artworks – which included a giant expressionist portrait of the Japanese author and nihilist Yukio Mishima – hung from the walls of his Berlin apartment.”
