Yukio Mishima and the Aestheticization of Politics from a Deleuzian Perspective on Death and Sacrifice

Mishima Yukio is not the only Japanese writer to commit suicide. In culture like the Japanese one, in which the act of suicide is not ostracised by religious taboos, voluntary death has taken on different forms over time and has been expressed in strict codes and rituals. Osamu Dazai, Mishima’s literary rival, committed shinjū (13 June 1948), a double suicide out of love,