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I don't know how famous Mishima Yukio is in Western world. But of course here in Japan, he is one of the most famous writer. He committed harakiri at age 45 at the headquater of Self Defence Force in 1970.

At age 45, Nietzsche lost his sanity and went into labyrinth of schizophrenia for the next ten years.

As the moment of my 45th anniversary of birth will approach, I feel fear. Since I've been told too many times that I am already in insanity.( Believe me, many Japanese people have been thinking I am already mad as early as ten or something because of my extremely early development in language skills)

Whatever the reason I have been called to be so, I have to get over the age 45.

In my case, insanity has been always beside me through out my life, I have to overwhelm the insanity, otherwise I will be overwhelmed by it.

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  • But I am greatly familiar with Nietzsche, and am currently reading that famous neoconservative: Leo Strauss [slashdot.org].

    Mishima Yukio certainly come across as a fascinating fellow, with the sheer diversity and apparent depth of his output.

    I would like to find out more. Where would you recommend beginning with him? Do you know of any especially good translators?

    • In 1970, I was still at age 9. I didn't know anything about him till we had a shocking news with military uniform, with headband he was making a speach at the headquarter of Self Defence Force in Tokyo. Later at age 14, I started reading his novel, 'The Sound Of Tidal Wave' simply because it was dramatised in a movie and became very popular among Japanese young including us like middle school students. It was a love story between the young.

      I was impressed in not the story of his novel, the story was rather

      • Thank-you, Mercedo!

        I've just ordered "Confessions of a Mask", and "Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories"; I don't know when I'll be reading them: I'll be doing a little research for the talk that I'm planning to give the Philosophy Group on Oriental Philosophy in two months!

        Still, I'm looking forward to reading them...

        Cheers, Tim.

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