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The Tragedy of Unfulfilled Powers

The Tragedy of Unfulfilled Powers, by Reichenbach

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The Dignity of Death “If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death? No death may be called futile.” Yukio MishimaSome months ago, looking on the internet for information about Yukio Mishima I found a very low quality photo of his funeral after he commited seppuku after a failed coup d’etat to restore the powers of the emperor in 1970. It really struck me as a very powerful image about the death of a human being and how it affects the lives of people who knew or cared about that person.The first man on the right is Yasunari Kawabata, a writer and personal friend of Mishima, who was also the first Japanese author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. He committed suicide two years after Mishima, leaving no note or clear reasons to do so, although his biographer has said that he had nightmares about Mishima for two or three hundred nights in a row, and was incessantly haunted by the specter of his deceased friend. In a persistently depressed state of mind, he would tell friends during his last years that sometimes, when on a journey, he hoped his plane would crash.Sitting next to Yasunari Kawabata are Mishima’s wife Yoko, his father Azusa Hiraoka and his mother Shizue Hiraoka.(Copic markers, sumi ink and an assortment of patterned origami paper)