The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away
A man in a hospital bed, wearing underwater goggles fitted with green cellophane, dictates to the woman he calls his acting executor the history of a certain party: his father, who in August 1945 sat in a forest storehouse planning to seize an airfield and die singing the Emperor's anthem. His mother, listening next door, denies every fact of it. Written into the emperor-worship that came back around Mishima's suicide two years earlier.
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- takes its title from ↑ The Book of Revelation
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