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大西, 望. (2001-07-14). 三島由紀夫と剣道. 日本文學誌要, 64, 67-76

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• Author大西, 望

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Yukio Mishima

1925-01-14 - 1970-11-25

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Undergraduate thesis on Mishima and kendo, reading his kendo fiction ("Ken", "Honba") through three viewpoints - watching, doing, dying - against the aesthetics of Sun and Steel. Biographically it dates his taking up kendo to around age thirty-three, about three years after he began physical training in 1955, records that he kept up practice unchanged until a few days before his death, and quotes Sun and Steel's "kendo ni wa arayuru otoko-rashisa no bi ga gyoshu shite ita" ("all masculine beauty was condensed in kendo"). It does not treat his teachers, dojos, dan grades or competition record.

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