>>82233552
If you look into his philosophy, you will see that, in spite of not achieving what he wanted to achieve with his coup d'etat, he still lived and died as he wanted. He died in the bloom of his life, in good health and aesthetic appeal. When people think of Mishima, they think of him at his prime and not as a decrepit old man (this is congruent with his ideas of The Land Of The Pomegranate, wherein he speaks of beauty being destroyed before it can rot, and that this beauty is thus immortalized through the memory of that selfsame beauty).
