Hi! Today I can write about anything I want, so here I go. I'm going to talk to you about the great Mishima Yukio. He was a very famed writer. He was born in Tokio (Japan), the year 1944. His childhood was marked by his grandmother, Natsu. She was really violent, which influenced Yukio's work. At the age of 12, he returned with his parents, but it wasn't an improvement. His father, Hiraoka Azusa, was too strict. Sometimes, he entered to little Yukio's room, to destroy all the poems he liked to wrote, because "it was for girls". However, Yukio continued his work, with the support of his mother. When he went to Todai (The University of Tokio), the most prestigious university in Japan, he used to study in the day, and write in the night.
Why did I choose Mishima Yukio (which real name was Kimitake Hiraoka) to write this post? Because of his perseverance. We, the medicine students, are used to complain about how hard the classes are, and how we don't have much time for ourselves. Yukio would laugh on us, if he was still alive. Unfortunately, he decided to kill himself in 1970. This suicide is really famous, because he and four members of the Tatenokai (Shield Society), a society that he had founded, tied a commandant in his office. After a speech, Yukio killed himself by seppuku (also known as harakiri). But it was not what he was expecting...
Seppuku is a suicide ritual, in which the person cut his stomach with a knife. Then comes a helper, which cut his head off with a Katana (a japanese sword). The member of the Tatenokai who was in charge of cutting Mishima's head off, tried several times to do it, but he couldn't do it. So another member had to cut his head off. This ritual had been planned by Mishima for a year, and he was really excited about it.
He wrote a lot of books, like "Utage no Ato", "Shiosai", "Kamen no Kokuhaku", etc. I had just read one, because in Chile is too difficult to find is work. It's "Kinkakuji" (The Gold Pavilion). It became an important part of my life, and it will be my favorite book until the moment I die, probably. If you wanna know more about this amazing book, you will have to read it.
So, next time you feel down because of all the work you have to do, think that Yukio is laughing on you.
Why did I choose Mishima Yukio (which real name was Kimitake Hiraoka) to write this post? Because of his perseverance. We, the medicine students, are used to complain about how hard the classes are, and how we don't have much time for ourselves. Yukio would laugh on us, if he was still alive. Unfortunately, he decided to kill himself in 1970. This suicide is really famous, because he and four members of the Tatenokai (Shield Society), a society that he had founded, tied a commandant in his office. After a speech, Yukio killed himself by seppuku (also known as harakiri). But it was not what he was expecting...
Seppuku is a suicide ritual, in which the person cut his stomach with a knife. Then comes a helper, which cut his head off with a Katana (a japanese sword). The member of the Tatenokai who was in charge of cutting Mishima's head off, tried several times to do it, but he couldn't do it. So another member had to cut his head off. This ritual had been planned by Mishima for a year, and he was really excited about it.
He wrote a lot of books, like "Utage no Ato", "Shiosai", "Kamen no Kokuhaku", etc. I had just read one, because in Chile is too difficult to find is work. It's "Kinkakuji" (The Gold Pavilion). It became an important part of my life, and it will be my favorite book until the moment I die, probably. If you wanna know more about this amazing book, you will have to read it.
So, next time you feel down because of all the work you have to do, think that Yukio is laughing on you.
Hey! can I ask you to lend me that book? It would be a pleasure to read it...
ReplyDeleteI would correct "If he were still alive". And I would refer a bit more about the circumstances of his death, like why did he break into a commandant office and tide him, and what was the speech about, so we can get to understand better the context...
Also I would have wrote..."tried it several times, but in the end he couldn't do it, so another member had to cut Mishima`s head off."
Finally I would give more importance to Mishima`s work, before speaking of what you have read.
I really like your post...
See you next week.
Thanks for your corrections, Guillermo.
ReplyDeleteIt's really complex to explain why Mishima did that(tie a commander to his chair, make a speech about the Emperor and how Japan had lost his honor by accepting his defeat in the WW2, etc). He suffered a lot in his short life, so, if you think about it, he probably was really unstable, emotionally speaking.
That's why I tried to resume all I knew in 280 words. I wrote more than 300, and still it looks like an abstract, or something like that.(Probably not too many classmates would have read this post if it was even longer)(Probably just you will read this long comment XD).
About the sentence of Mishima's head, I thought that it wouldn't be understand, but I didn't know how to say it, so thanks again. A good feedback is always helpful.;)