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by Yukio Mishima<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Snowfall in a hot summer<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n \u201c<\/span>Wilting like a flower.\u201d \u201cI can\u2019t wait any longer\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n I don\u2019t like talking about my production. I prefer to let Yukio Mishima\u2019s last action speak. Mishima committed suicide at the age of 45, at an army camp in Tokyo on November 25, 1970.<\/span><\/p>\n After the Second World War, Mishima became increasingly convinced that the so-called period of peace was a lie, and was profoundly indignant at the inaction of intellectuals.<\/span><\/p>\n Mishima carried out his action 26 years after the war, at a time when economic growth and consumerism had reached gigantic proportions. Mishimasaid: \u201c<\/span>My action may seem mad, but I am wholly pure in my patriotic feelings, and think this will be understood. Many people will not understand, but I have to show that it is necessary and important that I now die a dog\u2019s death. To defend your ideas, you need to pay with your body<\/i><\/span>.\u201d This was in accord with the ancient Chinese ideology of <\/span>Yomeigaku<\/i><\/span> which holds that action and understanding are linked.<\/span><\/p>\n Mishima left his life, his family, his work, his position, his money. Is there anything more important? Mishima\u2019s ideology is opposed to the now, it is \u201canti-now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cA poet\u2019s life is like a flower: the inside blooms by itself\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n A flower that seems to be for eternity. A hidden flower.<\/span><\/p>\n (Kuniaki Ida)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Yukio Mishima Snowfall in a hot summer \u201cWilting like a flower.\u201d \u201cI can\u2019t wait any longer\u201d I don\u2019t like talking about my production. I prefer to let Yukio Mishima\u2019s last action speak. Mishima committed suicide at the age of 45, at an army camp in Tokyo on November 25, 1970. After the Second World…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[133],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenale-teatro","tag-133"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2023-05-23_163931-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1713,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions\/1713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}