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Yukio Mishima

Jonathan Bowden Library

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Japanese Warfare - Death Is the Cardinal Reality

In the Shield Society, which was Mishima's own personal military stick little society numbering around 100 persons, all of whom were supremely physically fit. They had two Imperial Japanese helmets from the 17th century cast in red and facing each other. In samurai warrior ship, the culture of modern war, killing from a distance, is distrivelaged. But interestingly, they dovetailed these ancient and modern ideas with the cult of dis suicide and reckless personal death for an Imperial and popular mission.

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