After the banquet

Writer, playwright, model, martial arts master and leader of a failed coup d'état that ended with his death, in public, by seppuku.

Mishima was the most important stylist of the Japanese language in the post-war era. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times in the 1960s. He never received it. 

 “Luxurious vocabulary, decadent metaphors that blend traditional Japanese and modern Western literary styles”

A total intransigence and obsession with the unity between beauty, eroticism and death.

“Kazu walked through the garden; not being married, she found in this a perfect physical pleasure and an occasion to meditate in complete freedom. All day long, she would chatter, sing: she was never alone. Although she was used to receiving visitors, she ended up becoming tired.

Her morning walk proved to her that her soothed heart was no longer disturbed by love. “Love no longer interferes with my existence.” While she admired the way the rays of a splendid sun, passing through the trees still immersed in the mist, made stand out the green of the moss that carpeted her path, Kazu felt herself pierced by this somewhat melancholy truth.

She had been away from thoughts of love for a long time. The memory of her last love was already far away. “I have become invulnerable to all the dangers of love,” she used to say.»