Yukio Mishima

I have discovered another Japnese suicidal that intrigues me. I discovered him after reading about a Daniel Menche album inspired by this novel, Sun and Steel. The first japanese suicidal that I dicovered was Yutaka Taniyama. Mishima commited seppuku, the ritual suicide of the Samurai in 1970. Just as in Taniyama's case I was drawn into his world. They both gaze back at me from whatever feeble photograph was taken of them, and a plane infintum shoots through their eyes, and continues through my own. Taniyama emphasizes if not symbolizes the power of combining two seemingly diseperate parts. Mishima has done so with the idea of physical transformation, similar to that of Taxi Driver and Fight Club.