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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
“What is so ghastly about exposed intestines? Why, when we see the insides of a human being, do we have to cover our eyes in terror? Why are a man’s intestines ugly? Is it not exactly the same in quality as a youthful, glossy skin? [...] Why does there seem to be something inhuman about regarding human beings like roses and refusing to make any distinction between the insides of their bodies and the outside? If only human beings could reverse their spirits and their bodies, could gracefully turn them inside out like rose petals and expose them to the spring breeze and to the sun…”
– Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Tags: entrails, guts, intestines, ordeal by roses, roses, seppuku, spirit
