Mishima friends Murakami just recalled, at the beginning of 1969, Mishima had said "from the state to the security of civil strife, there is time on the gap, the gap is before the Self-Defense Forces dispatched will playtime use the blank time before the attack broke in, and then hacked" and other words. Muramatsu just interpreted these words as a plan for amending the Constitution (this book has proved that there is a problem with such an explanation).
From common sense, Mishima wants to break in the place should be a left-wing parade, and then left-wing people to fight, glorious sacrifice; but if not to promote the Constitution, then for what? In that time gap, where is Mishima going to start, where to go?
In fact, the island has a clear attack stronghold. On international anti-war Day on October 21, 1968, Mishima was thrilled by the prospect of leftist insurgency and vigilante action. In Shinjuku, a place where left-wing activists and police clashed, Mishima brought members of the congregation to the National Theater. The rooftop of the National Theatre was the venue for the first anniversary celebrations on November 3, 1969.
On April 28, 1969, Mishima took Self-Defense Officer shun-Sheng Yamamoto (according to this person and Mishima, the Association of the relationship is another complex issue, this book also has, but the reasoning and the core issues of the less relevant, so this paper mostly omitted) visited the National Theater, and said to Yamamoto,”the stage below the organ is managed by Yamamoto realized that the National Theater was just around the corner from the Imperial Palace (five minutes walk).
Mishima has previously discussed with Yamamoto how to deal with the problem if the mob invades the Imperial Palace. Two months later, in June 1969, Mishima mentioned to Yamamoto the idea of the emperor will burst into the emperor actually guard the imperial residence", and said to lead nine Japanese sword death squads. Yamamoto said the focus should be on how to prevent the thugs into the Imperial Palace, which has its own first break into the truth? Mishima is silent.
In the past, researchers from the three islands have also noted the "imperial invasion plan", but few people dig deep. The reason: most of the researchers believe that the intrusion into the Self-Defense Forces is the three islands of the same plan, did not expect that the plan has changed. Banka had suspected that Mishima's intention was to hold the emperor to request a constitutional amendment, but as mentioned earlier, Mishima had not actively advocated a constitutional amendment to hold this plan.
Before the meeting of the students, long-held Maru Bo said: since September 1968, Mishima through some relationships, every week with ten members of the meeting to the Imperial Palace in the police kendo dojo practice kendo, with a real sword. Hold pill said, its hidden purpose is to put the real sword in the dojo built, for a rainy day. Such exercises lasted for a year and ceased after October 21, 1969. The ten members are apparently the aforementioned death squads.
He said Mishima's purpose was to protect the emperor; however, no matter how large the parade was, there was no guarantee that the emperor would be harassed. As previously mentioned, on October 21, 1968, the police conflict never reached the Imperial Palace, but Mishima first brought people to the Imperial Palace. It is appropriate to understand that once the public security out of the event, whether there is no conflict around the Imperial Palace, the three islands will be in the time gap led by the National Theater, the invasion of the Imperial Palace.
Assault on absolutes
The literary critic Isata Hikone once claimed that he told him, a month before his suicide, that his true purpose was to kill the emperor in the palace and to break into the Self-Defense Forces because he was unable to enter the palace. To kill the earthly emperor, to extol the "voice of the spirit", to prove paradoxically to be the emperor of the transcendent.
For the testimony of used this stone-shattered, few people are positive.As Matsumoto Kenichi thought that Mishima even if they really said these words, but also metaphor or symbol. But Matsumoto did not pay attention to the words in the Palace this clear location. The link to the previous has proved that the "imperial invasion plan" really has something to do, I am afraid that this sentence must be understood literally. The Imperial Palace has strict protection, only in the public security out of the chaos of the whole of Tokyo is possible to be a breakthrough.
In addition, iseda's testimony explicitly mentions The Voice of the spirit, which corroborates the author's earlier assertion that the voice of the spirit was the origin of the three islands ' political action.
Maru Bo and other members of the congregation are very angry at historian's words, that the purpose of Mishima should be the guardian of the emperor, how could I want to kill the emperor? However, Mishima in the“cultural defense theory”, has“as the emperor and as the emperor two points, an affirmation of the former and the latter. Of course, not every right-wing person can separate the two. It may be related to his differences with the emperor of Mishima.
Here, the author also mentions the views of Mishima on the 22nd and 26th events. Mishima compared the Japanese concept of the emperor as God with Christianity, describing the 26th incident and the defeat of Japan as Nietzsche's " death of God."The three Isles were influenced by the French philosopher Bataille, who believed that through the act of invading sacred things, they could be closer to the sacred.
In the week before his death, Mishima repeatedly referred to the theory that bataya was able to approach God from the inner side through Crime and eroticism; before that, he also used bataya's theory to interpret the cursing of Emperor Hirohito, one of the leaders of the 226 events, in prison. In addition, the idea of approaching the divine through encroachment is reflected in the behavior of the protagonist of spring snow in Mishima. In addition to“the voice of the spirit, a similar metaphor can also be found in the plot of the novel silk and mingchuan, afternoon trolling, running horse and so on.
In short, while we will never know exactly what he will do when he invades the Imperial Palace, the major testimony of Hikone Isata may not be isolated as a fact, but it is a highly probable conjecture that he intends to practice his philosophy by injuring himself.
In the end, the author wrote some politically correct words criticizing Mishima's designs and praising Hirohito's contribution to Japan, which seemed to me to be of little significance.
If history can give Mishima the opportunity to use his sword to end the Showa, completely change the view of the Japanese emperor, so as to subvert the spiritual history of modern Japan, it would be interesting?