Comments on: Kokoro No Tomo (bosom friend) http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/29/kokoro-no-tomo-bosom-friend/ sensitivitytothings.com Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:35:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Frog in a Well - The Korea History Group Blog http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/29/kokoro-no-tomo-bosom-friend/#comment-583 Frog in a Well - The Korea History Group Blog Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:12:40 +0000 http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/29/kokoro-no-tomo-bosom-friend/#comment-583 [...] Academics are most noted for writing for themselves, but sometimes they work in the service of others. Jonathan Benda has some questions about the ghostwriter for Syngman Rhee. John Gillespie writes about the relationship between Donald Keene and Mishima Yukio [...] [...] Academics are most noted for writing for themselves, but sometimes they work in the service of others. Jonathan Benda has some questions about the ghostwriter for Syngman Rhee. John Gillespie writes about the relationship between Donald Keene and Mishima Yukio [...]

]]> By: John Gillespie http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/29/kokoro-no-tomo-bosom-friend/#comment-492 John Gillespie Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:47:51 +0000 http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/29/kokoro-no-tomo-bosom-friend/#comment-492 <p>Thanks for the comment Alf, and apologies for my delayed reply. The reason is that I was going to actually reply in post, rather than comment form—which I should have known was a tad unrealistic. </p> <p>I can’t actually recommend anything by Mishima because I have yet to actually read his work! Which I know is probably downright unusual considering the amount I seem to know about him, but the fact is, sad or otherwise, that I am interested in the author, and perhaps writing style, ethos and beliefs, more than I am his actual writing. Call it a writing thing...</p> <p>It would also be problematic to recommend Mishima’s novels because of their graphic, er, subject matters—and I wouldn't want to be the one to give young thouandeye troubled dreams! </p> <p>That being said, I did go ahead a order a couple of books from Amazon this week, Confessions of a Mask included, mainly because I seem to inadvertently in the process of writing my own version—albeit without so many confessions.</p> <p>The story you describe sounds a little like Runaway Horses, but I am definitely not an expert. It is part of a tetraology.</p> <p>Thanks for your comment Callie. I checked out your website and I hope your e-stalker leaves you soon. It definitely isn't me—honest!</p> <p>And thanks also Camille. As per usual I appreciate being read.</p> Thanks for the comment Alf, and apologies for my delayed reply. The reason is that I was going to actually reply in post, rather than comment form—which I should have known was a tad unrealistic.

I can’t actually recommend anything by Mishima because I have yet to actually read his work! Which I know is probably downright unusual considering the amount I seem to know about him, but the fact is, sad or otherwise, that I am interested in the author, and perhaps writing style, ethos and beliefs, more than I am his actual writing. Call it a writing thing…

It would also be problematic to recommend Mishima’s novels because of their graphic, er, subject matters—and I wouldn’t want to be the one to give young thouandeye troubled dreams!

That being said, I did go ahead a order a couple of books from Amazon this week, Confessions of a Mask included, mainly because I seem to inadvertently in the process of writing my own version—albeit without so many confessions.

The story you describe sounds a little like Runaway Horses, but I am definitely not an expert. It is part of a tetraology.

Thanks for your comment Callie. I checked out your website and I hope your e-stalker leaves you soon. It definitely isn’t me—honest!

And thanks also Camille. As per usual I appreciate being read.

]]> By: Camille Crawford http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/29/kokoro-no-tomo-bosom-friend/#comment-488 Camille Crawford Wed, 30 May 2007 23:30:43 +0000 http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/29/kokoro-no-tomo-bosom-friend/#comment-488 Very interesting, these Japanese diaries. And an interesting look at the relationship between these two men. Thank you. Camille Very interesting, these Japanese diaries. And an interesting look at the relationship between these two men. Thank you.

Camille

]]> By: callie http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/29/kokoro-no-tomo-bosom-friend/#comment-487 callie Wed, 30 May 2007 13:20:34 +0000 http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/29/kokoro-no-tomo-bosom-friend/#comment-487 Thank you for sharing your thoughts as well as the literature that moves you...... callie Thank you for sharing your thoughts as well as the literature that moves you……

callie

]]> By: alf http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/29/kokoro-no-tomo-bosom-friend/#comment-483 alf Tue, 29 May 2007 13:04:15 +0000 http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/29/kokoro-no-tomo-bosom-friend/#comment-483 Hi John, Do you have a link to something by Mishima that you particularly recommend? (I did read the excerpt from Patriotism that you pointed to.) Did he write any poetryi? What was his jisei? Last year I read some sort of historical Japanese novel about a bunch of school students who were in an uprising, I think around World War 2. It was written from the perspective of the lawyer that defended them. Does this ring any bells? I can't remember what it was called. It might have been part of a trilogy. Hi John,

Do you have a link to something by Mishima that you particularly recommend? (I did read the excerpt from Patriotism that you pointed to.) Did he write any poetryi? What was his jisei?

Last year I read some sort of historical Japanese novel about a bunch of school students who were in an uprising, I think around World War 2. It was written from the perspective of the lawyer that defended them. Does this ring any bells? I can’t remember what it was called. It might have been part of a trilogy.

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