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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. Read more …

Published: September 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, bourgeois society, class, England, gender, Japan, modernity, movie reviews, North American New Right, reprints, sex, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, thumos, tradition, Trevor Lynch | 3 Responses

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Poslední slova Jukia Mišimy k příslušníkům Společenství štítu

473 words

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 Read more …

Published: June 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged in Czech, North American New Right, translations | Leave a comment

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Hungry for Substance:
Kitchen & Thirst for Love

Banana Yoshimoto and Yukio Mishima.

2,725 words

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 Read more …

Published: May 12, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Buttercup Dew, ennui, gender, Japanese literature, North American New Right, originals, transgenderism | 1 Response

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Mishima: The Last Debate

Video of the Day

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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, Read more …

Published: April 2, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged debate, debates, Japan, video of the day | 6 Responses

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The Anti-Revolutionary Manifesto

1,290 words

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. Read more …

Published: March 30, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Communism, essays, in English, Japan, nationalism, North American New Right, Riki Rei, Traditionalism, translations | 3 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 266
Pulp Fiction

141 words / 76:09

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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.

Published: March 27, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, ethics, G. W. F. Hegel, Georges Bataille, magnanimity, moral philosophy, philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, Plato, podcasts, postmodernism, Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, Thomas Hobbes, thumos | 14 Responses

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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. Read more …

Published: March 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged in English, Japan, nationalism, North American New Right, Riki Rei, translations | 6 Responses

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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 Read more …

Published: March 18, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged fascism, Japan, nationalism, North American New Right, originals, Riki Rei, speeches, the 1970s, translations | Leave a comment

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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. Read more …

Published: January 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, ethics, Japan, North American New Right, originals, Riki Rei, the Japanese | 14 Responses

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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”

Published: January 14, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Greg Johnson, Japan, Japanese literature, literature, North American New Right, originals | 4 Responses

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Mishima’s Life for Sale

1,153 words

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. Read more …

Published: August 28, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Graham, book reviews, Japan, literature, masochism, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, satire, suicide | Leave a comment

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Zen, the Samurai Ethos, & Death

Dominique Venner

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.

Published: January 16, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, book excerpts, Buddhism, bushido, Dominique Venner, Guillaume Durocher, Japan, meditation, Samurai, suicide, translations, warrior ethics, Zen | 13 Responses

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Remembering Yukio Mishima:
January 14, 1925–November 25, 1970

685 words

Spanish translation here

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

Published: January 14, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Greg Johnson, Japan, Japanese literature, literature, North American New Right, originals | 5 Responses

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Liberalism is Suicide; Suicide is Liberalism

Anthony Bourdain and his daughter, Ariane, in 2008.

1,037 words

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. Read more …

Published: June 18, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Dominique Venner, Hubert Collins, James Burnham, Karl Marx, Mark Fisher, North American New Right, originals, suicide | 4 Responses

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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, Read more …

Published: March 16, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, book reviews, Gregor Strasser, Masterpieces of Aryan Literature, oligarchy, originals, Quintilian | 5 Responses

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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. Read more …

Published: January 14, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Greg Johnson, Japan, Japanese literature, literature, North American New Right | 2 Responses

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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. Read more …

Published: December 4, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. Graham, articles, book reviews, bushido, Japan, literature, manliness, modernity, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, warrior ethics | 4 Responses

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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. Read more …

Published: November 23, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. Graham, articles, book reviews, egalitarianism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Japan, literature, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, resentment | 3 Responses

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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. Read more …

Published: November 2, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. Graham, Ancient Greece, book reviews, Charles Maurras, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Jonathan Bowden, Martin Heidegger, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, religion, Savitri Devi, Thomas Carlyle, vanguardism | 4 Responses

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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. Read more …

Published: January 14, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Greg Johnson, Japan, Japanese literature, literature, North American New Right | 2 Responses

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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. Read more …

Published: January 14, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, Japan, literature, North American New Right, originals | Leave a comment

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Mishima: Una vida en cuatro capítulos

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English original here

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. Read more …

Published: January 2, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, commercial society, Friedrich Nietzsche, in Spanish, in translation, Japan, literature, modernity, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Paul Schrader, Traditionalism, transvaluation, Trevor Lynch, warrior ethics | 1 Response

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Yukio Mishima

Jonathan Bowden

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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 Read more …

Published: October 28, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ernst Junger, Japan, Jonathan Bowden, literature, North American New Right, originals, Samurai, suicide, warrior ethics | 10 Responses

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“The Death Team”:
Codreanu’s For My Legionaries

James J. O'Meara

2,536 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] Read more …

Published: July 13, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, bushido, Corneliu Codreanu, fascism, Iron Guard, James J. O'Meara, Kerry Bolton, Lucian Tudor, North American New Right, originals, Samurai, the Männerbund, warrior ethics | 10 Responses

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Recordando a Yukio Mishima:
14 de enero de 1925–25 de noviembre de 1970

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English original here

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

Published: January 15, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, in Spanish, in translation, Japan, literature, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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Remembering Yukio Mishima:
January 14, 1925–November 25, 1970

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Spanish translation here

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

Published: January 14, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, Japan, literature, North American New Right, originals | Comments closed

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Anarquismo de Derecha

Karlheinz Weißman

Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1984–1961

Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1984–1961

868 words

English version here

Traducido por Francisco Albanese

El concepto de anarquismo derechista parece paradójico, de hecho, oximorónico, partiendo desde la suposición de que todos los puntos de vista políticos “derechistas” incluyen una evaluación particularmente alta del principio de orden… En efecto, el anarquismo de derecha ocurre sólo en circunstancias excepcionales, cuando la hasta ahora velada afinidad entre el anarquismo y el conservadurismo puede hacerse aparente. Read more …

Published: October 13, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anarchism, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, Charles Baudelaire, dandyism, decadence, Ernst Junger, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Henry de Montherlant, in Spanish, in translation, Julius Evola, Karlheinz Weißman, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Maurice Barrès, North American New Right, originals, Stefan George, Traditionalism | Leave a comment

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Voices of the Heroic Spirits

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Now not all the waves
of the four seas are calm,
but in the land of Yamato,
where the sun rises,
the winds are sated, men devote themselves to pleasure.
Under the virtuous rule of His Majesty
peace reigns everywhere.
Read more …

Published: September 26, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged bourgeois man, capitalism, consumerism, Japan, North American New Right, poems, reprints, translations, warrior ethics | 2 Responses

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Naoki Inose’s Persona: A Biography of Yukio Mishima

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Naoki Inose
Persona: A Biography of Yukio Mishima
Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 2013

Editor’s Note:

This is a review of the Japanese edition of Persona, which is available now in English translation. I have read the translation, which appears to be much longer (864 pages) than the Japanese original. It is a treasure trove of information on Mishima. Read more …

Published: September 15, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Japan, North American New Right, originals, Riki Rei, suicide | 1 Response

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The Immortal Death of Mishima

Christopher Pankhurst

Grave_of_Yukio_Mishima

Mishima’s grave, Tama Cemetery in Fuchu, Tokyo

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When Yukio Mishima arose on the morning of November 25th, 1970 he knew that it would be his last day on Earth. It was the deadline for completion of his novel, The Decay of the Angel, the fourth book in his tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. He placed the completed manuscript, sealed in an envelope addressed to his publisher, on a table. Mishima had given intimations that the completion of the tetralogy would be the culmination of his life’s work. Read more …

Published: August 14, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christopher Pankhurst, homosexuality, Japan, literature, North American New Right, reprints, suicide, warrior ethics | 3 Responses

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