"Literary Mystery" Soundtrack: Selected from Ye Xiaogang's film and television music "White Trap"
Mount Fuji
On the way to Mt. Fuji, pass by the Mishima Yukio Museum of Literature. His books had been read casually, and he knew that he was famous, especially the controversial suicide. The modest museum showcases Mishima's writings and experiences of simplicity, highlighting his contributions to Japanese literature.
Yukio Mishima Literature Museum
What impressed me was Mishima's study display – in front of the plain bookshelf there was a dark wooden case displaying his pen and paper and seal, as if recalling Mishima's inner struggling life. Behind mishima's beautiful watery textual mystery, what is his soul? Sometimes truth is more absurd and outrageous than fiction.
Kinkaku-ji Temple
Mishima wrote twenty-one novels, eighty short stories, thirty-three plays, a large number of essays, ten film scripts, thirty-six theatrical scripts, seven of which won awards. Judging from his age, there are many works. The Museum of Literature preserves many of his manuscripts, plays, film stills and posters, as well as published novels.
Manuscript of Yukio Mishima's Sea of Plenty
Mishima has a unique depiction of Japanese scenery. The sunset is still there, the twilight is in full swing, and the dazzling pine treetops are whispering in the sun-drenched trees. Mishima is silent about the secrets of his heart. He believes that exquisite silence overrides everything, that all joy is mixed with ominous premonitions, and that the presence of beauty is also a potential death. Between the lines, the mournful cries of the birds of prey pierced the cold night sky of Dongying, and the fate of the man was mysterious, and he was fascinated by death and summoned his soul by self-destruction.
The beauty of Japanese cherry blossoms
Reading his "Chao Chao", I still feel that the text is not precise and sharp. As a novel, the quiet and oppressive atmosphere depicted in the Japanese island nation is still there. Under the setting sun, the waves are leisurely. Black fish jump in the sparkling crystals of the sea surface of Ise Bay, while lovers' first kisses are seaweed-flavored. The narrow island is almost a disaster for Japan, and it can be fully felt in the text.
Tomomi Miura and Momoe Yamaguchi starred in the movie "Shiosu"
Reading Mishima's novels now is like watching a movie from the 1960s, with exquisite details, beautiful language, monotony of colors, and a small amount of descriptive information that requires patience. The text of his mid-period works only shows a personal sharpness. He often met the sea, as if the sea would reply to his wordless conversation. The sturdy male carcass is full of unquestionable power, but the description of the girl is nuanced—the happiness of a quiet virgin is closely linked to the quiet nature, and it is his distinctive personal style.
Mishima horseback riding
Mishima's death was full of weirdness and was the biggest controversy of his life. Self-destruction is finally over but he wishes. He was inferior and arrogant in his heart, and tried to exchange his death for the people's attention to the political system. He didn't realize that the world was survival of the fittest, not the advent of the fittest. Elevating his decadent thoughts to the height of sacredness, and slaughtering public opinion with ultimate correct self-consciousness without fear, he did not return to his noble historical position in the end. The darkest hour is not before dawn, and for Mishima, dawn never comes again.
Novels, essays, and screenplays published by Mishima
The world is far bigger than any novelist or artist could imagine. Bustling and bustling Tokyo, the tranquility of Yamanaka Lake, and the unscrupulous young people in the street taverns at night, construct contemporary Japanese icons. Humanity has its eyes wide open and looks into the deepest part of the world. With science and progress, the illusion is becoming more and more devalued; the gods are doomed, the evolution of human intelligence seems to have alienated them from us, and the soul has been clearly recognized by human beings themselves. The Mishima Literature Museum is quietly located on the way from Tokyo to Mt. Fuji and is private property. History is tolerant of Mishima because he has become one of the writers of the history of Japanese literature.
A small restaurant in Shinjuku, Tokyo, specializing in Tempura, has been open for nearly 70 or 80 years, and its appearance has not changed
Once upon another visit to Japan, I feel that everything has become a memory – Tokyo's bookstores are still colorful, Japanese made in Isetan Department Store makes tourists stop; the sunset in Yokohama is red and the spring water is gushing. Birds often cower in the air, because when the wind is strong, the sea is like a tiger roaring.
Roppongi, Tokyo
The soup in the Japanese meal, in addition to being salty, does not give people a deeper sense of taste or a sense of companionship. This reminds me of Japanese literature and music. The poignant shakuhachi, the dull Tang-style pipa, the heartbreaking shamisen, and japanese contemporary music also seem to be moving from orderly to disintegrating, merging into the vast and systematic disintegration of world music, forming the entropy of contemporary music. Entropy is just an imaginative interpretation, meaning disintegration. Mishima's talent ranges from gathering to dissipating, and in the process of spreading energy, he first satisfies his own desires and then considers the needs of the gods, no wonder Mishima's entropy.
The scenery of Japan is not very varied, but it is still possible to take a picture
Hear how Japanese musicians play my music! I wasn't there when Goto Ryū was recording, and although he and Yuga performed Ramla Mistake many times, the recording sounded strange, at least four minutes longer, and became patient. Still like Japanese art, you can appreciate the silence and entanglement of the Japanese people.1 After all, it wasn't my red blood that flowed in their souls.
The CD released by Delos, Ramla Error is the fourth
Yuga is a talented conductor and a leader in Google's technology department. He uses different words from art and technology to describe the mysteries of the universe, and I do not believe that art and science are in conflict, and that the competition between the two is only at the semantic level rather than substance. Yuga simply tells the same story to the world in different semantics.
The performance of "Manluo" at the Sandori Hall in Tokyo ended
Whether the current classical music recordings are consistent with the composer's own intentions can only be guessed, and the work has become a matter of the future, and it is not up to him. In Glasgow, England, and Ludwigshafen, Germany, I recorded the orchestral version of Ramla Error with the Royal Scottish National Symphony Orchestra and the German National Youth Orchestra respectively.
Twilight Fuji
When bidding farewell to Japan, the mountains are green and drizzling. A series of Japanese characteristics such as Kanji lanterns, Japanese clogs, courtesy and humility, rigorous work, frugal food, and exquisite manufacturing sway in front of your eyes. The waves of the Pacific Ocean are endless, and the sun shines through the clouds, and meeting with this light is the moment of soul liberation. I returned to Beijing with great devotion, after all, the weather here is even more varied.