It was because of him that i was introduced the idea that some people are sexually attracted to one gender, but romantically interested in another. I was so confused when I read his “confessions of a mask”
1:10 "Work was never pleasure for me, nor homekeeping thrift, which feeds good children. But to me oared ships were pleasure, and war, and well-glinted spears and arrow" Understandable.
I miss him. You know, he traveled to Greece in the 1960s, and even as a nonEuropean without the long history and cultural backing that Greece provided to Europe I think that he got more out of his travels there than most of the European tourists, and the reason I think so is because being able to see all of those statues and witness the Parthenon gave him such an inspiration that he wrote about it later. The Japanese have such a distinct warrior tradition that is very similar to the ancient Greek one. You find so much similarity really that someone like him, steeped in knowledge and tradition, really was able to inculcate and derive a firm outlook on the world, which is exactly what these statues were made to do by the Greeks themselves. Anyway, his unsuccessful coup was still inspirational. He was a hero and deserves an immense amount of respect for what he did. Rest in peace, brave warrior. We shall remember you always.
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@@an8790 nothing is nothing, that's all we can say about it without contaminating its meaning. Saying it's formless ads definition, which it has nothing to do with. Nothing, is nothing.
He applied a simple canon: choosing a wife on the basis of the relationship she has with her father. Some artists may find great support from the passive validation of their wifes - I say "passive" since she has "no imagination at all". Something similar may have taken place with the polemical nature of Socrates' wife, Xanthippe.
I always feel Mishima threw his life away for no reason. Everytime I hear of a right wing philosopher pointlessly choosing a not-so glorious death, it saddens me There's so few already. I'm convinced of Nietzsche was in better health he'd probably have died in some incredibly stupid way too.
@@sqipio3358 yes. at the time of leaving this comment, my mind was sitting in the setting of when she realized that he didn't love her as a partner for marriage. which was a painful experience for both of them
Well…I just read Discourse on Misogyny written by him. So here is what I think…he did indeed was in a way afraid of women. He for sure was traumatised by his childhood spent with his grandma, as she raised him as a girl…so I am not surprised that he hated women, had homoerotic tendencies, but he was not gay. Being gay was just not part of his belief system. Reading Discourse on Misogyny I understood that he married his wife just because it is right thing to do from the point of view of nature (only marriage is just human ritual), to have kids…I doubt there were any real deep feelings, he was sexually attracted to her, and she did not intervene or dominate in any way in the family.
Which is a sad, sad way to be married to someone. Very robotic and performative. It's a very fascistic way to be married and honestly I think a lot of the world's problems come from the fact that so many 'straight' couples behaved this way. They had kids just to...have kids. No love, no warmth. It's sad.
There is nothing i find more disgusting in people that are not well-read or intellectually capable than them trying to psychoanalyse figures that are far superior to them in body,spirit and mind. Look at this woman having the arrogance of simplifying Mishima...
@@avgvstvs7 Dude get fucked. Honestly Mishima is really NOT that difficult to figure out and I've met people exactly like him before. He isn't some enigmatic sphinx, he literally rats himself out at every opportunity.
@@oberdanribeiro651Yhh I’m gonna be honest a lot of these high profile right wing writers and poets have some sort of homosexuality in them. This is subjectively speaking of course haha
@@yalan9208apparently he was sexually attracted to men but romantically attracted to women, which I didn’t know was a thing and I was very confused when I read confessions of a mask.
Как ни странно, я более менее понимаю и без переводчика. А гугл переводчик показывает что-то не очень вразумительное. Вот, что значит обоим плохо знать английский, и отлично понимать друг друга
He kept it secret from everyone. Henry Scott Stokes, who was a close friend of Mishima and who was writing a biography on him, didn’t even know until the day it happened.
Imagine if Ezra Pound was Japanese, preferred men and kept a lot of his strongest opinions to himself for most of his life and you would have a rough approximation.
To everyone here... he was most likely bisexual. He was attracted to men and women. Apparently too, he wanted a wife shorter than him. Yukio was 5'4. Yoko was 5'1.
@@lambert801 because the themes of sexuality are very important in Mishima books, hell, he even has one centered around a gay man, who, arguably, is an author's self-insert character.
A celebrated Japanese author and probably the most famous homofascist in history. Since the late 20th century, far-right men and artsy gay guys both frequently try to claim him as their own and each group conveniently ignores the other's connection to his lifestyle and worldview.
Mishima was either gay or bisexual and appeared to be more interested in men. He got married as a means to hide his true sexual orientation -- like most LGBT people of his era did.
@hilariousname6826 He wrote about gay love in his works, but the fact that he had numerous male lovers never became public knowledge until after his death.
Looking into it, he committed seppuku in 1970 after attempting to take over a Japanese military base with some members of his private militia in an attempt to inspire a military coup of the Japanese democratic government. So, uh. Not... great...
@@camerapasteurize7215 mishima was a great man. he wanted nothing but Japan to be free from America, he wanted japan to return to its traditions. He studied greek philosophy and wrote a couple books. Dude was based af
@@j1hnyny The same man who was unfaithful to his wife and attempted to overthrow a democratic government to replace it with an authoritarian one? The same government and capitalist economic system that turned Japan into an economic powerhouse and a household name, with their culture and history shared around the world?
@@camerapasteurize7215 People like revolutionaries when they strongly share at least one sentiment. Nevermind if they're a despot or insane, if they say one good thing that's usually enough for people, especially if they're young and are eager to remake the world.
@@genuscorvid yea ok, so it’s a very common reason why many people get married and provided nothing for viewers who wanted to gain insight but I guess it’s entertainment
@@laelfoo2285There is obvious wisdom. He is saying not to marry women who are creative types or have the same interests, just out of necessity. There are Asian teachings that basically say your wife should be more functional not BPD emo gamer girl
Ah yes, the usual liberal shout towards anything masculine is to call it gay. The Greeks? Gay. The Romans? Gay. The Samurai? Gay. Mishima? Gay. Hoping people distance themselves from it. You'll get what you deserve soon enough.
All these people who worship him glance over the fact he'd get off to seppuku role-playing with other men. Once you find out, all his motives were inspired by perversion. In the end he was with other men watching him do the act for real.
@@yea9725don't think it is really glossed over. his homosexuality doesn't deter his message, even if it comes from a place of desire (as you have pointed out) not the will to save his country from westernization
@@ye6102 not really that much, his semi-independent portrait in Confessions of a mask is really loudly homoerotic. It's a real struggle to discover one's identity.
@@AnthropogenicInversion sure but if we would have to judge the real persona of mishima in the context outside of his writing nature, there isn't alot to differ for his sexual preference for the same sex. We know for sure he has a wife and kids, scandalous as he was he never outed himself as a homosexual in public before although these premises cannot be laid out as truth, but i also think there is a contradiction between his work and his personal life which lead me think hes either just fooling around or hes a closeted gay.
He didn't mean it in a demeaning way, it's just that different artistic sensibilities are often not compatible with peaceful coexistence in a married couple
@@RapidBlindfolds Quite a few assumptions. Is she even an artist? She's an artist daughter. Secondly, why the avversion to truth? I don't get it. My father can't cook, I tell him all the time.
@@golDroger88 I don't know if it is 'the truth' I just googled her and it looks like she's made a career out of what she does, so clearly other people like it. not sure if one person's opinion that she has no imagination counts as 'the truth'
not sure who this guy is but if this was a good way to find a wife back then, it was definitely a simpler time. because wtf lol edit: Looked it up. This guy...did nothing? "stylist" of a language? lol ok then. I was thinking he was someone who like...did something? is this just like someones random Dad or something?
If you head his biographic work "Confissions of a Mask," you'd understand that even though he didn't feel carnal attraction to female bodies he was able to love women platonically, he just didn't like having sex with them.
It was because of him that i was introduced the idea that some people are sexually attracted to one gender, but romantically interested in another. I was so confused when I read his “confessions of a mask”
Never have I heard before an accent that was a mix of posh and Japanese.
It’s more common than you’d think, especially among Japanese people who went to boarding school or university in the UK
Transatlantic-Japanese???
@@CatnamedMittens Let's say mid-Pacific accent.
He married an artist's daughter because he wanted someone that wasn't an artist but knew how to deal with artistic temperament.
And she tolerated his gay tendencies, she let him cheat with other men lol
@@Dirtysanchez27lol what a fool he was 😂
This exactly @@Dirtysanchez27
"My wife"
-Mishima voice
“I need wife” stark contrast to Japan now, no one wants children or is marrying
"My wife"
-Borat voice
@@ghfudrs93uuu
1:15
mai waifu
"My waifu uwu"
-Yukio Mishima
He married his wife because she was 100 percent herself. She’s an artists daughter.
everyone is 100% themselves. even actors
@@ericvantassell6809 when they speak honestly yes.
@@ericvantassell6809 Dramaturgy in psychology. Playing a role isn't being yourself.
culturally accurate
It was because of him that i was introduced the idea that some people are sexually attracted to one gender, but romantically interested in another. I was so confused when I read his “confessions of a mask”
1:10 "Work was never pleasure for me, nor homekeeping thrift, which feeds good children. But to me oared ships were pleasure, and war, and well-glinted spears and arrow"
Understandable.
Where's the quote from?
@@hre2044 The Odysey by the man himself.
. hm wow. btfl quote- ōoka af^
"needless to say" buddy I think if anyone needs to say it it's you
LOL! EXACTLY what I was thinking.
Lmao
...
No one needs to say it because she is evidently attractive. That was his point. Unsure what yours was.
Trying his hardest to beat the allegations.
I miss him. You know, he traveled to Greece in the 1960s, and even as a nonEuropean without the long history and cultural backing that Greece provided to Europe I think that he got more out of his travels there than most of the European tourists, and the reason I think so is because being able to see all of those statues and witness the Parthenon gave him such an inspiration that he wrote about it later.
The Japanese have such a distinct warrior tradition that is very similar to the ancient Greek one. You find so much similarity really that someone like him, steeped in knowledge and tradition, really was able to inculcate and derive a firm outlook on the world, which is exactly what these statues were made to do by the Greeks themselves.
Anyway, his unsuccessful coup was still inspirational. He was a hero and deserves an immense amount of respect for what he did. Rest in peace, brave warrior. We shall remember you always.
I heard somewhere that Japanese were even called "Greeks of the Orient"
And the ancient Greeks were gay too oh wow so many similarities
plus greece is flooded with africans, arabs and gypsies that will make sure to ruin your stay
I can't agree with reinstating imperialism considering my country got raped by his but I can respect his strength of will
You are right. Romans killed themselves to prove points.
声から察するにまだ若い頃なのかな？他の英語でのインタビューを先に見た後にこの動画を拝見したけど、発音がしっかり修正されてるところがあって、学習を怠ってないことが窺えた。ただ英語が上手というわけではなくて、自分の考えをしっかり持ってる人なんだっていうのが話し方から分かる。まあそうでないと他言語でスラスラと語れない。
Absolutely gibberish that explains a lot.
Genius or idiot? Well, I talk that gibberish and everyone calls me an idiot.
"I'm not gonna sugarcoat it" - classic Mishima
Beatiful! Keep uploading!
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For those who dont get it:
Must know this muscle man swings both ways.... and that man in the background is significant 😂❤
It really was a beautiful, tangled, daring relationship. Novel stuff ;)
His life was both a triumph and a tragedy very zen 🤔
That has nothing to do with zen?
@@bidoofismyking8962 go read some real books 📕
@@bidoofismyking8962 zen has to do with nothing.
@@particleconfig.8935Nothing is a formless something, and vice versa. All things go into formlessness and then take on form again.
@@an8790 nothing is nothing, that's all we can say about it without contaminating its meaning. Saying it's formless ads definition, which it has nothing to do with. Nothing, is nothing.
He applied a simple canon: choosing a wife on the basis of the relationship she has with her father. Some artists may find great support from the passive validation of their wifes - I say "passive" since she has "no imagination at all". Something similar may have taken place with the polemical nature of Socrates' wife, Xanthippe.
“Like any bird, i became too relaxed in my own nest…I needed wife.”
I can 100% relate man 😂
I need a woman! - Mel Gibson during some phone call
Bru I just read a quick biography on Wikipedia on this guy and I’m just like WTF? 👀
what he do?
@@turnleft8645 just read how he died 😬
@@intello8953I just read it and omg, they failed to behead him THREE TIMES!!!!! That must have been painful af wtf
Stand-up comedian of Showa.
Great man and true artist.
I always feel Mishima threw his life away for no reason. Everytime I hear of a right wing philosopher pointlessly choosing a not-so glorious death, it saddens me
There's so few already. I'm convinced of Nietzsche was in better health he'd probably have died in some incredibly stupid way too.
poor Sonoko
I feel like she ends up happier than him
@@sqipio3358 yes. at the time of leaving this comment, my mind was sitting in the setting of when she realized that he didn't love her as a partner for marriage. which was a painful experience for both of them
Well…I just read Discourse on Misogyny written by him. So here is what I think…he did indeed was in a way afraid of women. He for sure was traumatised by his childhood spent with his grandma, as she raised him as a girl…so I am not surprised that he hated women, had homoerotic tendencies, but he was not gay. Being gay was just not part of his belief system. Reading Discourse on Misogyny I understood that he married his wife just because it is right thing to do from the point of view of nature (only marriage is just human ritual), to have kids…I doubt there were any real deep feelings, he was sexually attracted to her, and she did not intervene or dominate in any way in the family.
Which is a sad, sad way to be married to someone. Very robotic and performative. It's a very fascistic way to be married and honestly I think a lot of the world's problems come from the fact that so many 'straight' couples behaved this way. They had kids just to...have kids. No love, no warmth. It's sad.
@@jasonlindley8246A fascistic way? Is that all you got? 🤨
@@Taiyo_Jingu There's more to Mishima's story, but in the case of his performative marriage? No this is a very typical story globally.
There is nothing i find more disgusting in people that are not well-read or intellectually capable than them trying to psychoanalyse figures that are far superior to them in body,spirit and mind. Look at this woman having the arrogance of simplifying Mishima...
@@avgvstvs7 Dude get fucked. Honestly Mishima is really NOT that difficult to figure out and I've met people exactly like him before. He isn't some enigmatic sphinx, he literally rats himself out at every opportunity.
He could’ve just said she was his beard
Everything I read about this guy leads me to think he wasn't exactly straight.
My thoughts exactly.
my exact thoughts after I read confessions of a mask
And you are right, he was actually a homosexual
@@oberdanribeiro651Yhh I’m gonna be honest a lot of these high profile right wing writers and poets have some sort of homosexuality in them. This is subjectively speaking of course haha
@@yalan9208apparently he was sexually attracted to men but romantically attracted to women, which I didn’t know was a thing and I was very confused when I read confessions of a mask.
Wow! How'd you find this?
DAMN SON, WHERE´D YOU FIND THIS!?
Mishima choosing wife is wild. Wonder how many electrics it took
He sounds extremely breathless.
Down low brother
He was, indeed, low for brothers
That's what the phrase "downlow" means 😅 @@emptycinema
How'd that work out?
he is so funny
Thank You YT for recommending this to me
He looks like he bout to do some cgi tricks
he talks like christian weston chandler
Yo its Zack King
Is he related to Heihachi Mishima?
Kazuya is based on him
No, Mishima was his pseudonym
@@jedd7624 DORIYA
Wait fr?@forgetfulstranger
I assume being ok with him cheating on her with men was also mandatory
なんだ？このビデオは？三島由紀夫って海外でも有名人！？
Mishima's marriage was mostly a convenience. His homosexuality was not a secret.
I love seeing good old bi-erasure online :)
Как ни странно, я более менее понимаю и без переводчика. А гугл переводчик показывает что-то не очень вразумительное. Вот, что значит обоим плохо знать английский, и отлично понимать друг друга
Для японца он отлично говорит, за вычетом обычной проблемы с L и R у них
@@alexanderkuptsov6117да это я конечно самонадеянно написал
Я тоже понимаю больше иностранцев, особенно славян. Говорю по-польски.
I was really expecting some Sigma-Like romantic advice but all I got was confusion
Yeah, let's take advice from him. Good idea.
Didn't know he was offering any.
An openly gay dude who was also insane, don't think he cared that much lmao
I miss you :(
Well that is because it would be weird if he did chose another mans wife aint it?
Dang he had two kids and killed himself in such a terrible way?
三島由紀夫は同性愛者だったので結婚しないつもりだったという考察もあるが、三島は現在の上皇后美智子さまとの見合いの経験もあり、結婚するつもりだったようだ。
三島は戦後日本の歩みを心配していた一方で、安らかな家庭を望んでいたのは間違いないでしょう。
I swear this comment section is filled with edgy, immature teens who miss the point.
Mishima Zaibatsu
So when he committed seppuku, he had a family with two children ? Didn't even think of that !
Did his family know what he was going to do ?
Based
he was a closeted gay man
@@nunomartins4265 damn
He kept it secret from everyone. Henry Scott Stokes, who was a close friend of Mishima and who was writing a biography on him, didn’t even know until the day it happened.
@@nunomartins4265 Nothing says "completely gay" like marrying a woman and having multiple children ...
he spoke such fluent english?
of course, listen to his radio interview on The Sailor who fell from grace with the sea on my channel. He spoke english even better there
thought it was tony leung in the thumbnails
Mishima Dzaibatsu
He was gay tho?
He probably had to get married, it was the thing to do in his time.
How is he related to Heihachi?
who as he?
Imagine if Ezra Pound was Japanese, preferred men and kept a lot of his strongest opinions to himself for most of his life and you would have a rough approximation.
❤
A huge talent list way too early.
WTF ALL THESE COMMENTS ARE BOTS REPEATING THE SAME WORD
Lol read how gay was confession mask
he didnt choose his wife... he chose a woman, soon become wife
Mishima huh? Did he throw is son off a cliff? 😅
Did he throw his children off a cliff by chance?
To everyone here... he was most likely bisexual. He was attracted to men and women.
Apparently too, he wanted a wife shorter than him. Yukio was 5'4.
Yoko was 5'1.
Average for a Japanese in his generation.
Why is his sexuality relevant?
@@lambert801Why is your comment relevant?
@@lambert801 because the themes of sexuality are very important in Mishima books, hell, he even has one centered around a gay man, who, arguably, is an author's self-insert character.
@@copecope2548 What's the relevance of his sexuality to the video?
i dont know who this is and why youtube recommended me this
whoa I thought he was gay
He was she was just a cover up 💔
He was a fucking genius!
Bro is just practising Borat impressions
I have no idea what this is
Who is Yukio Mishima?
A celebrated Japanese author and probably the most famous homofascist in history. Since the late 20th century, far-right men and artsy gay guys both frequently try to claim him as their own and each group conveniently ignores the other's connection to his lifestyle and worldview.
有名なホモファシストだよ。
Always thought he was a bit of a knob that bloke.
Mishima was either gay or bisexual and appeared to be more interested in men. He got married as a means to hide his true sexual orientation -- like most LGBT people of his era did.
I'm not sure he ever tried very hard to hide his orientation.
@hilariousname6826 He wrote about gay love in his works, but the fact that he had numerous male lovers never became public knowledge until after his death.
Why the need to classify people based on their preferences? He was himself, not “gay” or “bisexual”.
He got himself a Japanese wife ❤ He wins by default
I will say as an American woman whenever I’m socializing with Japanese women they always make me feel so inferior lol
how is this guy ? i dont know but i now i love him.
Looking into it, he committed seppuku in 1970 after attempting to take over a Japanese military base with some members of his private militia in an attempt to inspire a military coup of the Japanese democratic government.
So, uh. Not... great...
@@camerapasteurize7215 mishima was a great man. he wanted nothing but Japan to be free from America, he wanted japan to return to its traditions. He studied greek philosophy and wrote a couple books. Dude was based af
@@j1hnyny The same man who was unfaithful to his wife and attempted to overthrow a democratic government to replace it with an authoritarian one? The same government and capitalist economic system that turned Japan into an economic powerhouse and a household name, with their culture and history shared around the world?
@@camerapasteurize7215 i've never heard of him being unfaithful to his wife, i'd like to see the source from that.
@@camerapasteurize7215 People like revolutionaries when they strongly share at least one sentiment. Nevermind if they're a despot or insane, if they say one good thing that's usually enough for people, especially if they're young and are eager to remake the world.
who is this and how did I get here
A dude who was a major inspiration for Gengoroh Tagame, funnily enough.
How nice that he widowed her by his own volition 🤡
Thought he was gay ?
低い身長、短い足、大きな頭、立派な日本男児です。
i thought he was gay
Having same sex attraction doesn't mean he had the courage to live that life openly. Ironic considering how brave his writing and other actions were.
What a useless video, bro said nothing except superficial qualities… thought I was gonna get some wisdom
Because he likely had no true love for his wife and got married out of a sense of duty. Which isn't an uncommon story.
@@genuscorvid yea ok, so it’s a very common reason why many people get married and provided nothing for viewers who wanted to gain insight but I guess it’s entertainment
@@laelfoo2285There is obvious wisdom. He is saying not to marry women who are creative types or have the same interests, just out of necessity. There are Asian teachings that basically say your wife should be more functional not BPD emo gamer girl
Yeah, but he's gay lol
he is rather bi- than just homosexual
Ah yes, the usual liberal shout towards anything masculine is to call it gay. The Greeks? Gay. The Romans? Gay. The Samurai? Gay. Mishima? Gay. Hoping people distance themselves from it. You'll get what you deserve soon enough.
@@AlmostAeroGauge He was gay. Or at the very least bi.
Isn't Mishima a gay?This marriage is weird.
All these people who worship him glance over the fact he'd get off to seppuku role-playing with other men. Once you find out, all his motives were inspired by perversion. In the end he was with other men watching him do the act for real.
@@yea9725don't think it is really glossed over. his homosexuality doesn't deter his message, even if it comes from a place of desire (as you have pointed out) not the will to save his country from westernization
He was homosexual right? I'm pretty sure.
He also said he chose her to have a wide shorter than him
very gay writer
factually true
A closeted one i think
@@ye6102 not really that much, his semi-independent portrait in Confessions of a mask is really loudly homoerotic. It's a real struggle to discover one's identity.
and, even more, to discover how to interpret it, to present it.
@@AnthropogenicInversion sure but if we would have to judge the real persona of mishima in the context outside of his writing nature, there isn't alot to differ for his sexual preference for the same sex. We know for sure he has a wife and kids, scandalous as he was he never outed himself as a homosexual in public before although these premises cannot be laid out as truth, but i also think there is a contradiction between his work and his personal life which lead me think hes either just fooling around or hes a closeted gay.
Virgin??
I don’t understand why insulting his wife’s art elicited laughter
He didn't mean it in a demeaning way, it's just that different artistic sensibilities are often not compatible with peaceful coexistence in a married couple
Describing reality is an insult now?
@@golDroger88 tbf I haven’t seen her art but I can’t imagine marrying someone while actively disdaining/mocking their occupation
@@RapidBlindfolds Quite a few assumptions. Is she even an artist? She's an artist daughter. Secondly, why the avversion to truth? I don't get it. My father can't cook, I tell him all the time.
@@golDroger88 I don't know if it is 'the truth' I just googled her and it looks like she's made a career out of what she does, so clearly other people like it. not sure if one person's opinion that she has no imagination counts as 'the truth'
Ron's gone wrong
A nice one from a gay
not sure who this guy is but if this was a good way to find a wife back then, it was definitely a simpler time. because wtf lol
edit: Looked it up. This guy...did nothing? "stylist" of a language? lol ok then. I was thinking he was someone who like...did something? is this just like someones random Dad or something?
He was a successful author though
Cringe
He was gay tho, He got married to hide in the closet.
i would not call writing a bunch of extremelly gay books inspired by his own life "hiding in the closet"
That is literally what it means to hide in the closet
If you head his biographic work "Confissions of a Mask," you'd understand that even though he didn't feel carnal attraction to female bodies he was able to love women platonically, he just didn't like having sex with them.
Got married forced by his parents.
@@markus-ks9sfhmm interesting sexuality. He was a very interesting person.
It was because of him that i was introduced the idea that some people are sexually attracted to one gender, but romantically interested in another. I was so confused when I read his “confessions of a mask”