Even after so many years I often find myself thinking about Mishimaalmost all other artists just seem so dull when compared to him I mean the man died in an act of performance art/ symbolic ritual that he had written into some of his fictional work as tho he himself was a character
He made his own life a work of art. Based if you ask me.
Haha he gay for little boys
>>25553793>>25555530Fuck off, pseuds. You're going to ruin it.
>>25553793>mishima was the only artist who did anything edgy in real lifeRetard.
>>25556542ancient hellenic soul in a japonese body.
>>25556810name 10 edgy artists
>>25553793The Jap that Gapped
>>25558828Mishima was extremely Japanese, it just so happens that the Japanese are closer to the Classical Hellenes in spirit than any other modern people
>>25553793He's proof that a life lived authentically is industinguishable from a larp.Could it be, then, that inauthentic lifelivers are the real larpers?
>>25558844>it just so happens that the Japanese are closer to the Classical Hellenes in spirithow so
>>25558832Charles MansonAdolf Hitler
>>25558832BunyanMarinettiJungerHemingwayRimbaud MaloryCervantesCaravaggioCelliniBurroughsNow, kindly kill yourself.
>>25558844>closer to the Classical Hellenes in spirit than any other modern peoplethat's the frenchmen
>>25558828I don't care for westernized crypto-absurdist nips..
>>25558859Because.... it just does, okay?!
>>25558844>Mishima was extremely JapaneseBehold: A man that represents traditional Japanese values!
>>25559028the contradictions and various irreconcilable aspects of his art and personality are a major part of his enduring appeal, it would be just about impossible to argue that a person with Mishimas unique outlook could have been formed anywhere but JapanIve always found it weird how many people post about Mishima here in spite of not knowing anything about him besides his wikipedia article and the Schrader movie
>>25558888I don't see how any of those are edgier than Mishima. Maybe Caravaggio and Burroughs because they killed people. But you're comparing them to a guy who modeled his life around anticipating his own excruciatingly painful suicide
>>25559126They all lived extremely interesting and full lives, and pushed themselves to their extremes in favour of their art/inspiration. Mishima also lived an interesting and full life, but he is far from the only artist to do so. Being le edgy is not the same as living an edgy life. An edgy life entails danger and extremes. Cellini and Malory also killed people.Byron, Celine, Wolfram von Eschenbach are other examples from the top of my head. Basically, Mishima is cool but isn't the end all and be all of literature, little chuddy.
>>25558832Elliot Rodger
>>25559055>it would be just about impossible to argue that a person with Mishimas unique outlook could have been formed anywhere but JapanNot true. I can easily conceive of a westerner influenced by the orient who ends up exactly like Mishima.
>>25559285there are just so many things about Mishima from his old school pseudo aristocratic grandma, coming of age just as Japan was fighting and losing the war, experiencing the resurgence of Japan while lamenting the spread of globalist neo liberalism and the loss of distinct culture while embracing the newfound material luxuries, alongside his exposure to noh and kabuki from a very young ageI could go on but so many specifically japanese things influenced him so deeply since he was a boy contribute to making your statement one that can only come from a place of ignorance, if sincere
>>25553793I'm a total booklet but I liked confessions of a mask and the sailor who fell from grace with the sea. >>25558832Phil spector (murderer)Van gogh (suicidal)Lou Reed (racist)Hp Lovecraft (troubled childhood)Orson Welles (alcoholism)
