The Beautiful Death, by Yukio Mishima
"It is impossible to live and die beautifully, so, for one’s own sake as well, correcting the state of country and people takes precedence."
The Beautiful Death
Yukio Mishima
The ideal of the ancient Greeks was to live beautifully and to die beautifully. There is no doubt that the ideal of our way of the warrior also lay therein. But the difficulty of contemporary Japan lies in that, if it is difficult to live beautifully, it is more difficult to die beautifully. Now, when the warrior ideal is no more,