Headlessgod.com » ordeal by roses http://www.jack-donovan.com/mishima A Tribute to Yukio Mishima Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:38:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Eikoh Hosoe http://www.jack-donovan.com/mishima/2009/06/hosoe-eikoh-exhibition/ http://www.jack-donovan.com/mishima/2009/06/hosoe-eikoh-exhibition/#comments Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:16:13 +0000 admin http://www.jack-donovan.com/mishima/?p=202 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

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


]]> http://www.jack-donovan.com/mishima/2009/06/hosoe-eikoh-exhibition/feed/ 0 The Intestines http://www.jack-donovan.com/mishima/2009/05/the-intestines/ http://www.jack-donovan.com/mishima/2009/05/the-intestines/#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 06:25:14 +0000 admin http://www.jack-donovan.com/mishima/?p=188 “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

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