Afterword to An Introduction to the Study of Action, by Yukio Mishima
"Attentive readers will surely hear my own experiences, sighs, inward sufferings, confessions, and predictions in these (more directly than in my novels)."
Afterword to An Introduction to the Study of Action
Yukio Mishima
Of the three essays included here, “An Introduction to the Study of Action” and “The Final Aesthetics” were serialized respectively in Pocket Punch Oh!1 and Women Themselves2, and the last, “Wang Yangming Confucianism as a Philosophy of Revolution” was most recently printed in Shokun!3. “An Introduction to the Study of Action” and “The Final Aesthetics” are each written for their readers, young male readers and young women readers respectively. The main aim of all three is above all ease of reading and understanding, but “The Final Aesthetics” is obviously partly a joke. So it may upset people who hate jokes.