The Tidal Wave" is a novel of peace and tranquility, and is so different from Mishima's work that it is described as "exceptional for this writer, in that it is a world where crime and the smell of blood are kept out.

The setting is an isolated island called Utajima in the sea of Ise. On this beautiful island, separated from the mainland, the story is told of the pure love of two young people.

Yukio Mishima is often associated with the gruesome interior depictions of "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" and "Confessions of a Mask" and the gushing blood of "Melancholy". However, he could also write pure, innocent, Disney-like works such as "Tidal Wave.

That Yukio Mishima wrote a Disneyesque piece."

For me, this was quite a shock.

After all, what was that Tokyo University Zenkyoto...what was the difference from the students who holed up in the Yasuda Auditorium and threw Molotov cocktails, or the sects who repeatedly engaged in internal rebellions...?

I could not for the life of me figure this out. Who were these people who debated with Yukio Mishima? Were they also engaged in internal strife and violence...?

This book has been too gratifying for me to have such questions.

This is an amazing book. This book is the text of 15 hours of intense discussion. This book is the best resource to learn what the Zenkyoto of Tokyo University was all about and what the discussion with Yukio Mishima was about. I highly recommend this book to get a feel for the atmosphere of this era.

The current work, "Confessions of a Mask," is Yukio Mishima's first full-length work. Moreover, despite being such a "beginning work," this novel is quite grim. The inner anguish, conflict, and storm that foreshadowed Mishima's later works are already depicted here.

The protagonist of this work is a peculiar boy who has homosexual tendencies and is even sexually aroused by the blood spilled by young men. But he also agonizes over it and desires the happiness of the world in general.

But still, he was not allowed such peace...

This work has been called an autobiographical novel by Yukio Mishima. Mishima himself had a wife and children, so it is not completely the same as the novel, but it is said that the problems he had and his upbringing had a great influence on this work.

The essays in this book are filled with Yukio Mishima's humor.

I read this essay after reading "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" and "Melancholy Country," and I was surprised at how interesting Yukio Mishima is! I read this essay after reading "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" and "Melancholy Country," and I was surprised at how interesting Yukio Mishima is.

Also included in the second half of the book is Yukio Mishima's Muscle Theory.

Mishima began his physical transformation in his thirties, working on body building. One of the best parts of this book is that you can listen to Mishima's muscle theory. The aesthetics of Mishima's muscles are fascinating! Considering the recent muscle boom, it is not surprising that Mishima's muscle theory has developed into a kind of movement.

Bushido is found in death.

Yukio Mishima loved "Hagakure," the book from which everyone knows these words, all his life. Three years after he published this work, he himself committed suicide, just like a samurai. There is no doubt that this book had an extraordinary influence on Mishima.

In particular, the phrase "Bushido is found in dying" itself is a paradox that symbolizes the entire book. I found in it the greatest reason why this book gives me the strength to live. These words seem to express the essence of what Mishima received from this book.

This book contains the secrets of Yukio Mishima's life, which was so spectacular. I highly recommend "An Introduction to Hagakure" together with "Melancholy".

If a busy person wants to read one of Mishima's novels that is an extract of all that is good and bad about Mishima, he or she should read one of his novels, "Melancholy.

The book is so well written that Mishima himself has described it as "The Land of Melancholy. I read this work after "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion," which was my first Mishima experience, and I was finally possessed by Mishima's magical power after reading "Melancholy Country.

Melancholy Country" is one of Mishima's works that I highly recommend, as it concentrates the essence of Yukio Mishima in its 30 or so pages of storytelling.