
It was inevitable and necessary that Mishima’s act of seppuku was unsuccessful… His death slow, painful and tortuous, nerve-wracking to those around him, and anxiety-ridden as the beheading was not swift or clean either. A sign of the ever-approaching decline! And it was his destiny, and the era’s, to lose to the multitude, to lose honor, and to die in a perverse, lingering manner.The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima