The Aesthetics of Death: Reflections on the honorable suicide from the texts of Mishima

The objective is to show the aesthetic purpose of the life of Yukio Mishima (1925 - 1970), led the way, and the way led in parallel with his literary career. His whole life was conducted by the maxim that "the way of the samurai is death," maximum accepted as an honorable and patriotic truth. For confirmation of this thesis, whose works were selected characters are samurai like The Hagakure: The Ethics of the Samurai and Modern Japan, and the texts in which the author reflects on the Japanese theme Bushidō (Samurai Code of Ethics), as Confessions a masquerade, something autobiographical work, Sun and Steel, and the Sea of ​​Fertility tetralogy. Special attention will be devoted to the tale Patriotism, 1961, whose plot focuses almost exclusively in the ritual of seppuku (commonly known as Harakiri).