Japanese cherry blossoms are loved by everyone, and the brilliant vitality of cherry blossoms is also a portrayal of the Japanese people's spirit of life, and it is also an eternal theme of Japanese literature.
As Japan's first writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Yasunari Kawabata is undoubtedly recognized as a representative of Japanese literature.
However, in fact, since the death of Junichiro Tanizaki, in the rumors that Japanese writers will win the Nobel Prize in those years, the most vocal is the one who wants to talk about it today.
Yukio Mishima.
He was nominated for the Nobel Prize three times in 1965, 1967 and 1968, but ultimately failed (perhaps because of his young age). He ended his life in 1970 at the age of 45.
And the way he died was as fantastical as the fall of cherry blossoms.
Yukio Mishima
Nevertheless, the praise for Yukio Mishima is gushing, coming from all over the world, such as:
Yasunari Kawabata called Yukio Mishima "a literary genius who has rarely met a single person in two or three hundred years";
Japanese literature researcher Donald King claimed that "if you want to choose a representative writer of modern Japanese literature, it is mishima who is the only one";
The Western media even referred to Mishima as "The Hemingway of Japan" and "Da Vinci of Contemporary Japan".
He is one of the most modern Japanese writers to be translated into foreign languages, and is a great playwright while his novels have been accomplished.
He also serves as a critic, journalist, film actor, director, model, bodybuilder, kendo enthusiast and more.
For example, the famous photo album "Rose Punishment" filmed by The Japanese national treasure photography master Hideko Hosoe:
On the morning of November 25, 1970, he took the members of the Shield Society he had formed, kidnapped the Commander of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, gave a speech, and instigated the Self-Defense Forces to mutiny.
After being ridiculed and ignored, he returned to the superintendent's office and committed suicide by cutting himself, shocking the world.
Many define Mishima's death as a purely political leaning, but if you read and understand his writings, you can see that his death was a martyrdom of his own aesthetics.
All his life, he has been thinking hard about existence and beauty, and he is obsessed with the search for beauty. Whether it is the so-called healthy beauty or the beauty of different colors, in his gorgeous and brilliant writing, it has a strong impact like the sun and the sea.
Yes, ambiguous sexuality, radical political views, a frantic desire to forge flesh, and, ultimately, a horrific suicide by cutting one's own stomach are all mishima's people.
Mishima resolutely decided to do so despite the world's incomprehension of him, as he said in his most famous novel, Kinkaku-ji Temple: Not being understood is the reason for my existence.
As Mishima's masterpiece, Kinkaku-ji temple is based on the real events that occurred in 1950, creating the story of this young monk who burned Kinkaku-ji Temple, a national treasure of Japan, in order to explore the relationship between existence, sex, beauty and destruction, which is very complex and profound, making Mishima a top writer.
The famous Kinkaku-ji Temple
Despite the mysteries left by Mishima's death, no one can deny that his work is great and immortal.
His words rarely have a sad feminine beauty, but there is a strong impact that brings people a tremor in the heart and an emotional stirring.
In his short life, he completed 21 novels, more than 80 short stories, 33 screenplays, and a large number of essays.
With 10 films adapted, 36 adapted, and 7 winning various literary awards, he is a veritable prolific writer.
The most representative works are undoubtedly "Kinkaku-ji Temple", "ChaoSao" and "Hunger and Thirst for Love".
"Chao Chao" is a perfect love with the fiery heat of the ancient Greek spirit. This two stories of sadness and joy have since been made into movies and become good stories on the screen:
Momoe Yamaguchi and Yukazu Miura starred in the movie "Shiosu"
Satoshi Mu and Yuko Takeuchi starred in the movie "Spring Snow"
"Shiosu" is the freshest of all Yukio Mishima's works.
The story begins on an island in Japan, where people have a simple mind and have lived on fishing for generations.
Here a pure and immaculate love sprouted.
The fisherman Of the Poor Family, Shinji, falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of a large landowner. Although they encountered some obstacles, they eventually came together.
In this love, the most memorable scene of the study jun is that they date in the storm.
The two men were drenched in torrential rain and were naked when they were roasting the fire by the campfire, and they just expressed their love with kisses, and there was no more physical contact.
This made Shogun jun can't help but marvel that Yukio Mishima was so pure! His love is so simple! It's so sweet!
"Hunger and Thirst for Love" is a love story without love. Thus, it is born with the constitutive elements of tragedy—deviance, longing, jealousy, destruction.
It has both epochality and eternity, and it is enough to take any perspective from it.
She seeks security from her ambiguous relationship with her father-in-law, and longs for pure and vibrant love from the young hired worker Saburo.
Etsuko's hunger for love could not be satisfied after all, because her intimate relationships were all established in a distorted way.
Repeated attempts to eliminate loneliness with love have only become more and more lonely.
With astonishing insight, Mishima once again exposed the tragic truth of the spiritual level of modern people with his "extreme writing".
The overall structure of "Hunger and Thirst for Love" maintains the rigorous pattern of the Japanese classical tradition, meticulous and exquisite, the time and space changes and overlaps neatly, and is highly praised by critics, and is praised as "the most rigorous work in Yukio Mishima".
Mishima always thinks about suicide, so he treats every writing as the limit before he dies.
For readers who love Mishima, the "Extreme Writing Trilogy" is included at one time, which can be read at once; for readers who do not know Mishima, these three books are also a good introduction to the magnificent world of literary heroes.
Yukio Mishima wrote a trilogy
"Golden Temple Pavilion", "Chaoshao", "Hunger and Thirst of Love"
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