Word: shinju
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...close as a Western reader is likely to get to the subject. Scott-Stokes never sensationalizes -Mishima did that for himself-but in addition to his literate examination of the man's work, he surmises that the famous death scene was part of a double love-suicide, a shinju, involving Mishima and Masakatsu Morita, a sullen young leader of Mishima's private army who killed himself at the same time...
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