Mishima Says Ordinary Life Is Worse

the guy who didn't go to war because of tuberculosis and spent the rest of his life trying to make up for it by larping as a soldier “Ordinary life is even more horrible than war.” — Yukio Mishima

A black-and-white photograph shows Yukio Mishima in a suit and tie, posed in front of a wooden fence. The joke contrasts his avoidance of war due to tuberculosis with his later obsession with military aesthetics, framing his quote about ordinary life as darkly self-aware and ironic. EN: A black-and-white photograph shows Yukio Mishima in a suit and tie, posed in front of a wooden fence. The joke contrasts his avoidance of war due to tuberculosis with his later obsession with military aesthetics, framing his quote about ordinary life as darkly self-aware and ironic.

• @eternalclassic / 87134 2026-04-27