Arise Young Lions! - Mishima Record
Just found this listing for the ultra-rare Mishima record. Out of my price range, but someone who reads this site should own it…
ARISE YOUNG LIONS ! – Yukio Mishima & Tatenokai
Jonathan Meese - Mishima is Back @ Tomio Koyama Gallery
Artist Jonathan Meesepresented a Mishima-related installation at the Tomio Koyama Gallery from 05/Sep/2009 – 03/Oct/2009.
See selected photos from the installation here.
click opera – Is Jonathan Meese a fascist?
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/
Several songs on the German ritual-folk band Golgatha’s 2005 “Kydos – Reflections on Heroism” album were dedicated to Yukio Mishima. The songs “Icarus” and “World Serpent” were particularly inspired by Mishima and his “Sun and Steel,” according to Chris from the band.
http://www.ikonenmagazin.de/golgatha/
“Icarus” can be heard on MySpace at:
http://www.myspace.com/schaedelstaette
Tags: folk, golgatha, icarus, reflections on heroism, world serpent
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.
Jay McInerney: Through Western Eyes
Tags: Haruki Murakami, Jay McInerney, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
I was in Barnes and Noble today and I found a beautiful, hardcover edition of the Hagakure, which Mishima referred to as the “womb of his oeuvre” and wrote his own commentary on. It is bound in bright orange fabric, it’s printed in full color, and it even has a purple ribbon page marker. It’s very reasonably priced, and I almost picked it up–but I highlight my books and it seemed like too nice of an edition for me to own. I am tempted to pick it up for my Mishima bookshelf. Just to have…
The photo on Amazon/B&N doesn’t do it justice. Here’s a link to the publisher, Duncan Baird. Even that doesn’t quite show how nice it is for the money.
http://www.dbp.co.uk/book_preview.asp?b_id=559#
Tags: art of the samurai, Hagakure
http://www.lohud.com/article/20090929/CALENDAR/90925008/-1/SPORTS/Meet-the-director
September 29, 2009
Director Paul Schrader returns to the Jacob Burns Film Center with “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters,” an ambitious exploration of Japan’s great postwar author Yukio Mishima. He was also a flamboyant actor and body-builder, who took over Japan’s army headquarters in 1970 and publicly committed suicide. Propelled by an ethereal Philip Glass score, the film won an award at Cannes and received stunning reviews but flew mostly under the radar when released. Screening begins at 7:15 p.m. followed by a Q&A with Paul Schrader, who is also a celebrated screenwriters (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull). Tickets are $13. 364 Manville Rd., Pleasantville. 914-747-5555.
http://www.burnsfilmcenter.org/
Tags: paul schrader
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
