As the saying goes, good-looking skin bags are the same, and interesting souls are one of the best.
Most of the time, "fish and bear paws" always seem to be incompatible, but in his body the two coexist almost miraculously.
As Japan's most famous "drag queen", Mei Lun Akihiro was once popular in Japan, and he is still active today, almost becoming a legend in the Japanese performing arts industry, and even known as "Japanese Mei Lanfang".
He has a beauty that makes people "indistinguishable", lives a transparent and wonderful life, and his interesting soul is properly packed in a beautiful skin bag.
The blatant "coming out" once caused his career to stop for a while, but he always used his brave path of "knowing that there are tigers in the mountains and biased towards the tiger mountain line" to the end, never looking back and never regretting it.
Someone once asked him, "If there is an afterlife, will I become Akihiro Again?", he replied very firmly, "Of course, I believe that I am unique."
In the long and bitter life, Mei Lun Minghong always lived to understand, perhaps the misfortune of his youth prompted him to grow up prematurely and understand all the sufferings in life; he always knew his own uniqueness, be the truest self, and did not follow anyone.
His life can be described as ups and downs, looking back on a life of thousands of turns, Mei Lun Minghong once wittily used "eating" to briefly describe his life. In his opinion, a "eat" word is enough to describe his life.
When he was young, his family was still hungry; when disasters struck, after the family was destroyed, they lived a precarious life of "eating the last meal and not eating the next meal"; after a song became famous, it filled the luxury of life; after the reputation was disgraced and spurned, it fell to the bottom...
These are nothing more than two kinds of life, "eating and drinking" and "starving", but this is his summary of his own life, presenting the most authentic with the most simple, which seems to be very different from the enchanting and feminine him on the stage.
In the eyes of the world, Mei Lun Minghong seems to be more inclined to be with the woman wearing a gorgeous dress, a little powder can be beautiful enough to overshadow the women around her, almost with aggressive beauty that makes it impossible to look away, and it is not known that under this gorgeous appearance is a clean, real soul.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the life of an undead bird, constantly destroying and constantly reborn</h1>
Akihiro Miwa was born in Nagasaki, Japan in 1935, and was originally named Akihiro Maruyama. The family made ends meet in a coffee shop owned by his father, and living in acceptable living conditions.
In his recollection, the coffee shop opened by his father was actually more like a bar, with many wind and moon women and so-called "gentlemen".
In all kinds of wine-colored glitz, he has deeply felt from an early age that what he observes through his eyes is the most false manifestation, and his appearance, clothing, gender or age are not the most real.
Only a naked and straightforward soul can most truly represent a person's nature and inner qualities. In the experience of most ordinary people, before the age of ten, most of them are years of ignorance.
Carefree, surrounded by parents' knees, innocent and happy to live. Perhaps it is the influence of the original family environment that makes Akihiro Miwa prematurely have a sense beyond his age, which makes people more curious about his childhood.
However, an overly deep childhood was only the most prosaic beginning of his life. Akihiro Miwa once declared himself an "immortal bird" to the world, and indeed, for him, this description could not be more appropriate.
Birth, old age, illness and death are the established cycles of life, the birth of all people is the beginning of the countdown to life, no one can escape death, perhaps because of this, most people are afraid of death.
What kind of person is not afraid of death? Probably a person like Akihiro Miwa, who was once infinitely close to death.
In 1945, at the end of World War II, the U.S. Military sent bombers to drop an atomic bomb code-named "Fat Man" into the Japanese city of Nagasaki.
Nagasaki was immediately reduced to a hell on earth, with more than sixty percent of the local buildings destroyed in an instant, and more than 37 percent of the city's total population.
Japan was so traumatized that it announced its unconditional surrender, and World War II came to an end.
Japan's surrender was built after nagasaki paid a terrible price, and with it was the peaceful life of Akihiro Miwa, who was ten years old.
Even if he survived, this sudden disaster still ruined his life. Not only did he take away many of his relatives and destroy his home, but he also suffered for the rest of his life from the radiation aftermath of the atomic bombing.
His life always seemed to be reshaped in constant destruction, even if he was like an immortal bird, even if he could be reborn by fire, but some injuries accompanied him throughout his life, becoming a haze that he still could not get out of, and firmly shackled him.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > from him to "her", but never went with the flow</h1>
After the disaster, after his father's career failure and bankruptcy, after his death, Mei Lun Akihiro completely lost his only reliance in this world, and he had no one to rely on.
He went from being a student studying piano and vocal music at the National Conservatory of Music to being forced to drop out of school and living on the streets of Shinjuku. Face the harsh reality, in order to survive.
Akihiro Miwa began working as a resident singer at a restaurant in Ginza called "Silver Bari" to earn a meager income, when he was fifteen years old.
Ginza is the most prosperous and famous major business district in Tokyo, Japan, and with the name of "the most expensive place in Asia", Ginza is not only the prosperous hinterland of Japan, but also full of all kinds of desires and fame.
The cups of drunkenness are mixed with all kinds of competition, and countless people who aspire to get ahead are struggling in this swamp of desire.
Many people who dream of fame come here like shooting stars, and the fleeting sparkle seems to illustrate the cruelty here. In the beginning, Akihiro Miwa just sang in the restaurant as a beautiful teenager.
By chance, he found in some foreign magazines that many foreign models were dressed in "male and female". This fresh understanding made Miwa Akihiro begin to have new ideas, and he began to try to perform in women's costumes.
Initially, Akihiro Miwa dyed his hair purple and paired it with tonal clothes. A mysterious and flamboyant purple color caused a lot of turmoil in Ginza, and local people were saying that "a purple monster has appeared in Ginza".
With the heated discussion, Mei Lun Akihiro gradually emerged in Ginza, and the life of the Nagasaki teenager came to an end in the dark, and her real life quietly began.
It should be known that although the current society is more diverse and inclusive, there are still most people who do not understand or even accept "men dressed as women" (comment: Later, Mei Lun Minghong showed people in women's clothes, so he changed "he" to "she").
Mei Lun's bold dress more than sixty years ago has triggered many people's condemnation of her "deviant", people regard her as a pervert, insult her with insulting language, and even hit her with things.
Despite this, she remained indifferent, almost ignoring all opposition, and Mei Lun Minghong grew her feminine curly hair, put on a gorgeous skirt, and began to show her style in women's clothes.
In the face of the scolding and criticism from the outside world, her almost indifferent treatment of being outside makes people think of the teenager who once saw through humanity in her father's café and bathhouse.
Maybe whether it is him or her, Miwa Akihiro has never changed, he is that she always lives according to her heart, free and fearless.
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"But I'm pretty, so it doesn't matter if I'm not cute." --Akihiro Maruyama
In 1957, Akihiro Miwa became famous for his cover of a French song. After the song became famous, it attracted more and more attention.
Soon after, more and more people liked her songs and liked her, and the growth of fame allowed Akihiro Miwa, who originally sang in the restaurant, to take the real big stage and receive more attention.
It is precisely because of this that he is loved by many famous literati, including Yukio Mishima. Yukio Mishima was born into a declining aristocratic family, and his grandmother's family was prominently raised in the court.
As the eldest grandson of the family, Mishima is responsible for reviving the family and has been living in the over-protection and discipline of his grandmother, resulting in his sensitive and delicate qualities.
According to Miwa's recollection, her first encounter with Mishima was not entirely "pleasant." At that time, Miwa Akihiro worked in a tea shop in order to make a living, and perhaps the overly beautiful face of the teenager made Mishima, as a customer, call Miwa Akihiro to accompany him many times.
Miwa Akihiro said on the spot that he was not a geisha and refused Mishima's request, but Mishima quipped, "This child is not cute at all." "
Who knew that Akihiro Miwa replied, "But I'm pretty, so it doesn't matter if I'm not cute." Then he turned and left. Her "being given face" left a deep impression on Mishima's heart, and later invited her to appear in a script she had written.
Two people who were almost incomparable began to become entangled, and neither of them expected that they would become the glimmer of each other's lives for the rest of their lives.
In Akihiro Miwa's view, she and Mishima may be attracted to each other because they are far apart.
According to Miwa Akihiro's own elaboration, she lived herself very early, self-sufficient, deciding for herself what she wanted to wear and how to dress, unrestrained, and did not care about other people's opinions and comments.
Mishima is exactly the opposite, under the balance and control of his grandmother, he seems to have come from the birth of life to shoulder the mission, shouldering the hope of the revival of the entire family, such a heavy burden makes him large enough to do the work he wants to do, as small as the need for suits and shoes every day is clearly defined.
One is to swing recklessly and never be bound; the other is to be horizontal and vertical, and not allow the slightest bend.
Just like Mishima's life is not allowed to deviate and accidentally because of the mission he shoulders, Miwa's pride and freedom are like an accident that smashed into Mishima's originally calm and waveless life, and rippled in his heart.
Two completely different extremes, colliding with each other; the opposite souls are a fitting fit, and Mishima is deeply attracted to Akihiro Miwa and calls her "beauty from heaven", seeing her as his muse.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the last rose, from Akihiro Maruyama to Akihiro Miwa</h1>
"Those roses contain all the days that will come together." --Akihiro Mirinawa
Perhaps it is precisely because of the saying that "love cannot be hidden", and gradually the seemingly innocent affection between Miwa Akihiro and Mishima is discovered by more and more people.
The two's overly close interactions eventually led to criticism of the pair, and Akihiro Miwa was even known as Yukio Mishima's same-sex lover.
In fact, as long as you have seen the photos of the two when they were young, you will find that in addition to gender, they can definitely be called "lang talent and female appearance", a pair of bi people.
"There is no reason" is probably the most cruel word for a lover, and in 1970, Yukio Mishima committed suicide at the age of forty-five after writing the fourth volume of The Sea of Plenty.
Before Mishima died, he went to hear Akihiro Miwa sing for the last time and gave her a bouquet of fiery red roses. No one thought that after this parting was forever.
After Mishima's death, she changed her name from Akihiro Maruyama to Akihiro Miwa. The bouquet of roses that were as red as fire would bloom in my heart for Mei Lun Minghong until death.
She never imagined that the red would be the last warmth. No one knows the exact reason why Akihiro Miwa changed his name after Mishima's death, perhaps because Akihiro Maruyama, who met you at the beginning, has "died" with it, and there is no one in the world who feels sorry for him.
In later years, Mei Lun Minghong always showed off herself, and she even publicly stated her sexual orientation. It is conceivable that in the old era of conservative folk customs, openly "coming out" was undoubtedly a huge scandal for the already famous Mei Lun Minghong.
Because of her "honesty", she caused a devastating blow to her acting career, and many people rejected, insulted, and personally attacked, and she lost many opportunities to perform, and her life was once in a state of difficulty.
Despite falling into a trough, this "dead" undead bird still stubbornly believes that everything will be fine!
Fate eventually sided with Akihiro Miwa, even if she struggled to survive in the cracks, but the people who always liked her singing were always there.
After singing for a coal miner, Akihiro Miwa was inspired and deeply touched by it. These working people at the bottom of society, in order to survive, even if they are covered in ashes, are still willing to take some from their own small income to watch her performances.
Touched, Mei Lun Minghong began to pay attention to these simple and kind working people, even if they were ragged and did not have a glamorous appearance, but they had the most beautiful soul.
Mei Lun Akihiro began to write songs for them, hoping to sing for them in his own way with his own strength, and use songs to bring a little encouragement and joy to their lives.
When you treat the world with kindness, the world will also give you warmth back. The songs created by Akihiro Miwa for laborers were loved by the public as soon as they were published.
With her own empathy and beautiful singing, she sang into everyone's heart, and many fans who heard her singing were even moved to tears. Once again, the undead bird flipped against the wind, from the bottom to the top. To this day, she is still active in the Japanese music scene.
Text/Lin Bonan