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Tag: Yukio Mishima

  • January 14, 2021 Greg Johnson 5
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    Remembering Yukio Mishima
    (January 14, 1925–November 25, 1970)

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    Yukio Mishima was one of the giants of 20th-century Japanese literature. He has exercised an enduring influence on the post-World War II European and North American New Right. In commemoration of his birth, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this website:

    (more…)

  • November 27, 2020 Turan 3
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    Sun & Steel:
    The Tatenokai Phenomenon in Brief

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    In post-1945 Japan — as in most of the states that lost in World War II — American occupation brought about radical political and social changes. In the 1946 to 1948 Tokyo trial (similar to Nuremberg), several leaders of the war cabinet were sentenced to death or long prison terms. It was also stipulated in the constitution that Japan cannot have its own armed forces, only Jieitai (Japan Self Defense Forces), a small number of volunteers for self-defense purposes. (more…)

  • November 27, 2020 Video of the Day 1
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    Video of the Day:
    Poetry With a Splash of Blood

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    In the latest episode of Guide to Kulchur, Greg Johnson, Guillaume Durocher, and Ty E join Fróði Midjord to discuss the life and art of Yukio Mishima. On November 25th, 50 years ago, Mishima committed ritual suicide to inspire the Japanese to return to their aristocratic honor culture.

    The episode is archived on BitChute (video) and Spreaker (audio only). Guide to Kulchur streams live on DLive every Tuesday at 2:00 PM Eastern Time / 20:00 CET.
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  • November 25, 2020 Greg Johnson 8
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    The Meaning of Mishima’s Death

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    It was fifty years ago today that Yukio Mishima, one of Japan’s most celebrated men of letters and an ardent man of the Right, committed suicide at the age of forty-five. What happened, and what did it mean?

    On November 25, 1970, Mishima and four followers wearing the uniforms of his private militia group the Shield Society (Tatenokai) visited the Ichigaya Barracks of the Japan Self-Defense Force (the Jieitai). (more…)

  • November 25, 2020 Greg Johnson 1
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    Remembering Yukio Mishima
    (January 14, 1925–November 25, 1970)

    798 words

    Spanish translation here

    Yukio Mishima was one of the giants of 20th-century Japanese literature. He has exercised an enduring influence on the post-World War II European and North American New Right. In commemoration of his birth, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this website: (more…)

  • September 16, 2020 Trevor Lynch 3
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    The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

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    Yukio Mishima’s 1963 novel The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is one of his darkest works. Set in post-War Yokohama, it is the story of Fusako Kuroda, a thirty-three-year-old widow who runs a boutique selling Western luxury goods, and her thirteen-year-old son Noboru Kuroda. (See Alex Graham’s discussion of the novel here.)

    Fusako’s world is entirely feminine, bourgeois, modern, and Western. She is also deeply lonely. Then she meets Ryuji Tsukazaki, the second-mate on a steamship. (more…)

  • June 30, 2020 Yukio Mishima
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    Poslední slova Jukia Mišimy k příslušníkům Společenství štítu

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    Original English translation here.

    Příslušníkům Tatenokai (Společenství štítu):

    Mezi vámi vidím jak mnohé z těch, kdo s námi neochvějně jsou už od založení organizace, tak členy páté třídy, kteří jsou s námi teprve devět měsíců. Přesto jsme, alespoň co (more…)

  • May 12, 2020 Buttercup Dew 1
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    Hungry for Substance:
    Kitchen & Thirst for Love

    Banana Yoshimoto and Yukio Mishima.

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    Banana Yoshimoto
    Kitchen
    Translated by Megan Backus
    London: Faber and Faber, 1993

    Yukio Mishima
    Thirst for Love
    Translated by Alfred H. Marks
    New York: Random House, 1999 (more…)

  • April 2, 2020 Video of the Day 6
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    Mishima: The Last Debate

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    Yukio Mishima, one of the Right’s most celebrated authors, took part in a debate at the University of Tokyo in 1969 with members of the radical Left-wing student group Zenkyoto. The debate was filmed, (more…)

  • March 30, 2020 Yukio Mishima 3
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    The Anti-Revolutionary Manifesto

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    Translated by Riki Rei

    Translator’s note: Mishima penned this essay titled “Anti-Revolutionary Manifesto” in early 1969, almost two years before his suicide, at the peak of Leftist protests, demonstrations, and riots, which were sweeping not just across Japan, but throughout the entire Western world. (more…)

  • March 27, 2020 Greg Johnson 14
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    Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 266
    Pulp Fiction

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    To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.”

    In the fall of 2000, I taught an adult education class entitled Philosophy on Film, where we discussed The Matrix, American Beauty, Ground Hog Day, Network, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Gattaca, and Crimes and Misdemeanors.

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  • March 24, 2020 Yukio Mishima 8
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    A Call to Arms:
    The Final Speech of Yukio Mishima

    2,338 words

    Translated by Riki Rei.

    Translator’s Note:

    This text, entitled A Call to Arms, was left on the spot when Yukio Mishima committed seppuku in the General’s office of the East Japan Division of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force at the Ichigaya military base, Tokyo, on November 25, 1970. (more…)

  • March 18, 2020 Yukio Mishima 1
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    The Last Words of Yukio Mishima to His Followers

    580 words

    Translated by Riki Rei.

    To the members of Tatenokai [Shield Society]:

    Among you there are both those who have stayed with us consistently since the founding of our organization and those of the fifth class who have been with us for only nine months. Yet as far as I’m concerned, regardless of the degrees of your involvement and experience, we are all comrades of a shared identity who have gone beyond the difference of ages (more…)

  • January 28, 2020 Riki Rei 14
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    In Defense of Mishima

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    I have read Andrew Joyce’s article “Against Mishima” at The Occidental Observer with great interest and mixed feelings. I admire Dr. Joyce’s writings on the Jewish question, but to be candid, his critique of Mishima is on the whole tendentious and shallow. It is also overly emphatic on some topics while neglecting or downplaying other equally, if not more, important ones. (more…)

  • January 14, 2020 Greg Johnson 4
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    Remembering Yukio Mishima:
    January 14, 1925–November 25, 1970

    700 words

    Spanish translation here

    Yukio Mishima was one of the giants of 20th-century Japanese literature. He has exercised an enduring influence on the post-World War II European and North American New Right. In commemoration of his birth, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this website:

    By Mishima:

    • “Voices of the Heroic Spirits”

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  • August 28, 2019 Alex Graham
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    Mishima’s Life for Sale

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    Yukio Mishima
    Life for Sale
    Translated by Stephen Dodd
    London: Penguin Books, 2019

    This past year has seen three new English translations of novels by Yukio Mishima: The Frolic of the Beasts, Star, and now Life for Sale, a pulpy, stylish novel that offers an incisive satire of post-war Japanese society. (more…)

  • January 16, 2019 Dominique Venner 13
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    Zen, the Samurai Ethos, & Death

    2,446 words

    Translated by Guillaume Durocher

    Translator’s Note:

    This text is drawn from Dominique Venner, Un samouraï d’Occident: Le Bréviaire des insoumis (Paris: Pierre-Guillaume de Roux, 2013), 101-15.. I have previously reviewed this work at The Occidental Observer.

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  • January 14, 2019 Greg Johnson 5
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    Remembering Yukio Mishima:
    January 14, 1925–November 25, 1970

    685 words

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    Yukio Mishima was one of the giants of 20th-century Japanese literature. (more…)

  • June 18, 2018 Hubert Collins 4
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    Liberalism is Suicide; Suicide is Liberalism

    Anthony Bourdain and his daughter, Ariane, in 2008.

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    In his seminal work, Suicide of the West, James Burnham wrote:

    Liberalism is the ideology of western suicide. When once this initial and final sentence is understood, everything about liberalism – the beliefs, emotions and values associated with it, the nature of its enchantment, its practical record, its future – falls into place. (more…)

  • March 16, 2018 Quintilian 5
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    Masterpieces of (Honorary) Aryan Literature 5
    Yukio Mishima’s My Friend Hitler

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    Yukio Mishima
    My Friend Hitler and Other Plays of Yukio Mishima
    Translated by Hiroaki Sato
    New York: Columbia University Press, 2002

    Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) is best known as a novelist and Right-wing activist who famously and publicly committed ritual suicide in 1970 one day after he had finished his tetralogy The Sea of Fertility. He was, however, a very prolific playwright with more than sixty plays to his name, (more…)

  • January 14, 2018 Greg Johnson 2
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    Remembering Yukio Mishima:
    January 14, 1925–November 25, 1970

    653 words

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    Yukio Mishima was one of the giants of 20th-century Japanese literature. (more…)

  • December 4, 2017 Alex Graham 4
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    Yukio Mishima’s The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

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    The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea remains imprinted upon the mind long after one has read it. It is one of Mishima’s shorter novels, but its tightly-woven narration heightens the intensity of the atmosphere, simulating a taut bowstring upon readying an arrow.

    The novel takes place in Yokohama, Japan’s leading port city, during the American occupation, and unfolds mainly from the perspective of a 13-year-old boy by the name of Noboru Kuroda. (more…)

  • November 23, 2017 Alex Graham 3
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    Beauty & Destruction in Yukio Mishima’s The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

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    In 1950, the Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Kinkaku-ji) in Kyoto was burned to the ground by a young monk. The temple had been built in the fourteenth century and was the finest example of the architecture of the Muromachi period. Covered in gold leaf and crowned with a copper-gold phoenix, it projected an image of majesty and serene beauty. It had been designated a National Treasure in 1897 and was considered a national symbol in Japan. (more…)

  • November 2, 2017 Alex Graham 2
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    Jonathan Bowden’s Extremists

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    Jonathan Bowden
    Extremists: Studies in Metapolitics
    Edited by Greg Johnson
    San Francisco: Counter-Currents Publishing, 2016

    Extremists: Studies in Metapolitics is a highly original book that contains the transcripts of nine of Jonathan Bowden’s orations: one on vanguardism followed by profiles of Thomas Carlyle, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Charles Maurras, Martin Heidegger, Savitri Devi, Julius Evola, Yukio Mishima, and Maurice Cowling. (more…)

  • January 14, 2017 Greg Johnson 2
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    Remembering Yukio Mishima:
    January 14, 1925–November 25, 1970

    653 words

    Spanish translation here

    Yukio Mishima was one of the giants of 20th-century Japanese literature. (more…)

  • January 14, 2016 Greg Johnson
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    Remembering Yukio Mishima:
    January 14, 1925–November 25, 1970

    mishim12653 words

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    Yukio Mishima was one of the giants of 20th-century Japanese literature. (more…)

  • January 2, 2016 Trevor Lynch 1
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    Mishima: Una vida en cuatro capítulos

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    Suceden cosas similares en los Estados Unidos: un marginado, ratón de biblioteca, de derechas, comienza a practicar levantamiento de pesas y artes marciales, forma una milicia privada, y sueña con derrocar al gobierno; luego, acaba muriendo en un enfrentamiento espectacular, suicida y en apariencia sin sentido contra el Estado. (more…)

  • October 28, 2015 Jonathan Bowden 10
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    Yukio Mishima

    MishimaSpeaks8,859 words

    Editor’s Note:

    The following text is the transcript by V. S. of Jonathan Bowden’s New Right lecture in London on December 10, 2011. I want to thank Michèle Renouf for making the recording available.   

    Mishima’s life was dedicated to a return of the spirit of the samurai and a belief in Yamamoto Jōchō’s book Hagakure, which is partly the 17th-century bible of samurai morality (more…)

  • July 13, 2015 James J. O'Meara 10
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    “The Death Team”:
    Codreanu’s For My Legionaries

    Legionaries-500x8002,536 words

    Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
    For My Legionaries
    Introduction by Kerry Bolton; Historical Overview by Lucian Tudor; with new appendices and photographs.
    London: Black House Publishing, 2015

    Black House Publishing has been known to me only as the publisher of relatively inexpensive, nicely produced Kindles that bring back into circulation the works of Sir Oswald Mosely and others of his circle;[1] (more…)

  • January 15, 2015 Greg Johnson
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    Recordando a Yukio Mishima:
    14 de enero de 1925–25 de noviembre de 1970

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    Yukio Mishima fue uno de los gigantes de la literatura japonesa del siglo pasado. (more…)

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