Tadanori Yokoo
3 Illustrations for "Killed By Roses" (A Book Of Portraits Of Yukio Mishima)
1969
Offset Lithographs
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Yukio Mishima as Saint Sebastian, 1968, by Kishin Shinoyama.
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When a boy…discovers that he is more given into introspection and consciousness of self than other boys his age, he easily falls into the error of believing it is because he is more mature than they. This was certainly a mistake in my case. Rather, it was because the other boys had no such need of understanding themselves as I had: they could be their natural selves, whereas I was to play a part, a fact that would require considerable understanding and study. So it was not my maturity but my sense of uneasiness, my uncertainty that was forcing me to gain control over my consciousness. Because such consciousness was simply a steppingstone to aberration and my present thinking was nothing but uncertain and haphazard guesswork.
yukio mishima, confessions of a mask
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…the strange way in which love can torture the heart with desire…
Yukio Mishima, The Sound of Waves (trans. Meredith Weatherby)
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She gave the unmistakable impression of girlish innocence unconscious of its own beauty. Her hair was tied with a white ribbon and she wore a pearl necklace, and her lips slightly parted like the petals of an exotic flower before the rains come.
Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (1969)
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Yukio Mishima with his cats
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Yukio Mishima and his cat - 1950s
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Cover for Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale (Japanese: 命売ります, Hepburn: Inochi Urimasu) 1968
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
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