Runaway Horses

A blog devoted to the life and work of Yukio Mishima. If you like this blog, please reblog (not repost) and keep captions. This is not a political blog. This blog is safe for all people, and, as Mishima did, welcomes the LGBTQ community.

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Paris 1965

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Yukio Mishima (PRIMIITA’s style)

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Yukio Mishima

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Yukio Mishima in winter Tatenokai uniform

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Yukio Mishima in summer Tatenokai uniform

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Yukio Mishima

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This blog will be going on temporary hiatus. Enjoy the archives. I’ve worked very hard on compiling Mishima quotes and rare photographs, only to find that they are frequently being reblogged by blogs I fundamentally disagree with. Tumblr is a free space, therefore I can only control so much; however, this blog was meant to appreciate one of the world’s greatest writers and fascinating people, not to be used for political reasons, particularly hateful politics. It’s been my pleasure working on this blog, and I hope fans of Mishima find all the treasures within.

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Yukio Mishima in Hitokiri (1969).

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They had been too proud even in their sufferings

Yes, he should have spoken to them. He should have armed them with the foreknowledge that would keep them from flinging themselves after their destinies, take away their wings, keep them from soaring, make them march in step with the crowd. The world does not approve of flying. Wings are dangerous weapons. 

Yukio Mishima, The Decay of the Angel, p.113

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random Mishima.

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Yukio Mishima in Afraid to Die (1960).

This film also goes by the titles Tough Guy and Karakkaze Yaro.

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He was the only one there who was set upon action

Isao felt keenly that he must develop the knack of masking his feelings in dealing with others.  He had now become a man quite of out the ordinary.  Even if nothing in his bearing showed this, the least carelessness might let people get wind of it.  They might detect that within him was the odor of a burning fuse.

Yukio Mishima, Runaway Horses, p. 273

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David Bowie’s portrait of Yukio Mishima, on display in Berlin in 2014.

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Yukio Mishima

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三島 由紀夫 Yukio Mishima was born on this day, January 14 1925

お誕生日おめでとうございます!

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Isao's eyes, revisited

“Beautiful eyes!” Honda exclaimed to himself. “Clear and shining, forever disconcerting others. Peerless young eyes radiating a censure that seems from another world, as if one were suddenly plunged beneath the waters of Sanko Falls. Go ahead, express what you like. Confess to anything at all. Be deeply wounded. You’re at the age when you should be learning the means to defend yourself. By speaking out without restraint, you will at last learn that no one is willing to believe the truth, one of the most valuable lessons a man can learn about life. This is the only wisdom I have to convey to eyes as beautiful as yours.”

Yukio Mishima, Runaway Horses, pp. 364-365

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1964: Yukio Mishima (center) at a press conference after his invasion of privacy trial concluded.  The Tokyo District Court found in favor of Hachiro Arita, a politician who claimed Mishima wrote a thinly-veiled account of his affair in his novel After the Banquet.

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