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Mishima and the Tyranny of Beauty

The aesthetics of fate

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Sep 03, 2026
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Chōkōdō Shujin enters the charged 1957 encounter between Yukio Mishima and Hideo Kobayashi, where beauty becomes a terrifying force of form, sacrifice, and resistance to the modern world.

When one contemplates the idea of pure beauty, it reveals itself not as mere aesthetic, but as something far more profound, something that is almost terrifying in its i…

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Writer. Itndependent translations of of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Yukio Mishima, Takeo Arishima, and others. 澄江堂主人
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