A review by dzengota
Patriotism by Yukio Mishima

5.0

Mishima's writing is so sharp. In so few words he paints a beautiful picture of a kind of cultural dedication which is so distant from what I know in my own life. There is a wholesome optimism to this book's double suicide. Its a blatant statement of moral codes which the characters navigate perfectly. The characters almost have an excitement about them as they order their wills for their sparse belongings, make their prayers to the Emperor and prepare the weapons of their suicide.