On November 25, 1970, the famous literary scholar Yukio Mishima, known as "Hemingway of Japan", committed suicide by caesarean section after writing the fourth volume of "The Sea of Plenty", "The Five Declines of Heavenly Beings". Later generations have been controversial about the reason for his suicide, and some people believe that the spirit of Yukio Mishima is a dual structure of scribes and samurai. The caesarean section actually shows his deep-seated vision of "abandoning literature and following the martial arts", and also shows his despair about the real society. The other part believes that Yukio Mishima's search for the politically charged "beauty" is also accompanied by a kind of dichotomy of "beauty" and the destruction of "beauty". As a result, some right-wing elements held "worried about the country" rallies to incite excessive nationalist sentiments.
There may also be new understandings such as Yusenaar's book "Yukio Mishima, or the Illusion of Emptiness", the author's study of mishima's biographical texts found that this radical resistance to the evil of the times, with the courage of the samurai spirit to "reveal its own evil", presents a mixture of traditional and modern characteristics. From this point of view, Mishima's suicide was a kind of premeditated, a kind of mental and psychological preparation. Yussenaar directly believes that this suicide is one of his most carefully planned and increasingly prepared endings.
From "The Sea of Plenty", he presents his understanding and exploration of "death" and "nothingness" in a four-step panoramic literary work, which is also interspersed with a large number of violent elements, and Mishima shows in the book that a country that is going to extremes may be able to change one or two through a single act of violence. Because of this, he was constantly controversial in later generations, and he was not a writer in the pure sense of the word, but more like a weapon to use literature as a weapon to stir up emotions. He was also extremely pessimistic, directly calling modern Japan ugly, like the victim of a green snake, and no one could escape the curse. He strives to build a story of a character in the tetralogy who runs through the spirit of Bushido, who has his own mixed emotions, who are the eighty survivors, who even if they are alive, but still cut their abdomen at the top of the mountain, this wild story is really frightening.
According to the author's analysis, no writer can know death itself better than a writer who has written a story of death for decades, and he is clearly aware of his return, which must be completed in the work and realized in life. In his heart, he also firmly believed in the saying of "Ye Yin", "Every day and every night, we are determined to die, so that when the time of death is approaching, we can gladly die." When misfortune comes, it is not so terrible, we need not be afraid..." It is also here that Yusenaar put forward the proposition she wants to explore in this article, "How to familiarize yourself with death or the way to die", Mishima wrote a lifetime, thought about it for a lifetime, and finally found that "when I think back on the past twenty-five years, its emptiness shocks me." I can hardly say I've lived. Everything becomes "empty."
All his achievements lack inner conviction, so what sustains him? I am afraid that it is the incomprehensible "bushido spirit". The way it adopts is to treat the act of cutting the abdomen that he identifies with in his heart as a heroic courage, which can support him to integrate into the "void" that he has been exploring for a long time, and get a sense of reality that is difficult for the world to understand.