Mishima's Suicide

Mishima was obsessed with death and the samurai cult of self-extinguishment from a very early age. Many Western historians believe that Mishima wanted to die, and wished to commit suicide at this time. He used the call to arms of a nascent imperial Japan based upon God-emperor worship as his excuse to commit security or seppuku in either Western or Japanese terms. Every element of the act was thought through aesthetically. After his speech was rejected by the body of the troops, he went back into the room and said, various shinto his prayers with his three or four colleagues. Then snelt down and ripped open his belly with one of the shorter of the samurai