“Isao had never felt that he might want to be a woman. He had never wished for anything else but to be a man, live in a manly way, die a manly death. To be thus a man was to give constant proof of one's manliness-to be more a man today than yesterday, more a man tomorrow than today. To be a man was to forge ever upward toward the peak of manhood, there to die amid the white snows of that peak.”
A gripping narrative following a group of horses that embark on an unexpected journey, intertwining their fates with those of the people they encounter. more
Yukio Mishima was a Japanese author and playwright, a prominent figure in post-war Japanese literature. His works, characterized by a fusion of traditional Japanese aesthetics and modernist techniques, often explored themes of tradition, ritual, and the samurai code. more
“To be a man requires that you accept everything life has to give you, beginning with your name.”
“A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.”