Recall first that there is in France a partial and very imperfect translation of the Hagakure. We therefore can not have access to this work that Mishima practiced every day. Finally, it seems to me that some comments have so somewhat simplistic, Mishima "as in himself finally eternity exchange": the figure of a man turned exclusively to the past, refusing intellectual decay and morality of modernity, the great hater of the Meiji era. Mishima deserves better than this stature of the great Commander of the Japanese far right. It would erase all the contradictions of a man torn apart: that of a man who secretly loves the West as it frequents shady places (hence his passion for Baudelaire) and, at the same time looking in the recovery morale of his country his own. It seems essential to read the short essay "The Sun and Steel", written shortly before his suicide, to understand the real motives of his act are certainly not those of the 47 ronin ...
