Tag Archives: Samurai

Yukio Mishima

8,859 words

Editor’s Note:

The following text is the transcript by V. S. of Jonathan Bowden’s New Right lecture in London on December 10, 2011. I want to thank Michèle Renouf for making the recording available.

Mishima’s life was dedicated to a return of the spirit of the samurai and a belief in Yamamoto Jōchō’s book Hagakure, which is partly the 17th-century bible of samurai morality Read more …

Published: October 28, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ernst Junger, Japan, Jonathan Bowden, literature, North American New Right, originals, suicide, warrior ethics, Yukio Mishima | 11 Responses

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“The Death Team”:
Codreanu’s For My Legionaries

James J. O'Meara

2,536 words

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
For My Legionaries
Introduction by Kerry Bolton; Historical Overview by Lucian Tudor; with new appendices and photographs.
London: Black House Publishing, 2015

Black House Publishing has been known to me only as the publisher of relatively inexpensive, nicely produced Kindles that bring back into circulation the works of Sir Oswald Mosely and others of his circle;[1] Read more …

Published: July 13, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, bushido, Corneliu Codreanu, fascism, For My Legionaries, Iron Guard, James J. O'Meara, Kerry Bolton, Lucian Tudor, North American New Right, originals, the Männerbund, warrior ethics, Yukio Mishima | 10 Responses

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Spiritual Virility in Buddhism

Julius Evola

4,415 words

It is the fate of almost all religions to become, so to say, denatured; as they spread and develop, they gradually recede from their original spirit, and their more popular and spurious elements come to the fore, their less severe and essential features, those furthest removed from the metaphysical plane. While hardly any of the major historical religions have escaped this destiny, it would seem that it is particularly true of Buddhism. Read more …

Published: June 5, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book excerpts, Buddhism, Julius Evola, manliness, North American New Right, philosophy, religion, reprints, Traditionalism, Zen | 6 Responses

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Yukio Mishima

Kerry Bolton

4,660 words

English original here

Yukio Mishima, 1925-1970, nasceu Kimitake Hiraoka em uma família de classe média-alta. Autor de uma centena de livros, dramaturgo, e ator, ele foi descrito como o “Leonardo da Vinci do Japão contemporâneo”, e é um dos poucos escritores japoneses a se tornar conhecido e a ser traduzido no Ocidente. Read more …

Published: January 26, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commercial society, cultural renewal, decadence, emasculation, feminism, Friedrich Nietzsche, globalism, globalization, in Portuguese, in translation, Japan, Kerry Bolton, literature, Yukio Mishima | Leave a comment

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Yukio Mishima

Kerry Bolton

5,098 words

Portuguese translation here

Yukio Mishima, 1925–1970, was born Kimitake Hiraoka into an upper middle class family. Author of a hundred books, playwright, and actor, he has been described as the “Leonardo da Vinci of contemporary Japan,”[1] and is one of the few Japanese writers to have become widely known and translated in the West. Read more …

Published: January 14, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commercial society, cultural renewal, decadence, emasculation, feminism, Friedrich Nietzsche, globalism, globalization, Japan, Kerry Bolton, literature, Traditionalism, Yukio Mishima | 5 Responses

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Yukio Mishima

Kerry Bolton

Yukio Mishima, 1925–1970

3,420 words

Yukio Mishima was born into an upper middle class family in 1925. Author of a hundred books, playwright, and actor, he has been described as the “Leonardo da Vinci of contemporary Japan,” and is one of the few Japanese writers to have become widely known and translated in the West. Read more …