Word: bunburyodo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...merely exotic decadence was his creative vigor and intelligence. He found a larger context for his obsessions in the Japanese martial tradition, which formalized his bloody impulses and created in him a kind of reverence for heroic self-slaughter, the ultimate self-abuse. He lived the anachronistic code of bunburyodo, the samurai tradition of art and action. Or he lived it some of the time. He played other roles as well, among them that of a conventional husband (he was married for twelve years and had two children). He was also a thoroughly Westernized man of letters...
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