{"id":1285,"date":"2008-11-21T10:31:29","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T17:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2008-11-20T11:24:20","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T18:24:20","slug":"the-sailor-who-fell-from-grace-with-the-sea-%e5%8d%88%e5%be%8c%e3%81%ae%e6%9b%b3%e8%88%aa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/the-sailor-who-fell-from-grace-with-the-sea-%e5%8d%88%e5%be%8c%e3%81%ae%e6%9b%b3%e8%88%aa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (\u5348\u5f8c\u306e\u66f3\u822a)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0679750150\/rpcman\" target=\"_new\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1286\" title=\"the_sailor_who_fell_from_grace_with_the_sea\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/the_sailor_who_fell_from_grace_with_the_sea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/the_sailor_who_fell_from_grace_with_the_sea.jpg 256w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/the_sailor_who_fell_from_grace_with_the_sea-96x150.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a> This was my third Mishima novel in the past month. As I read it, with only a few exceptions, I felt that Mishima had mellowed in this work compared to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/confessions-of-a-mask\/\">Confessions of a Mask<\/a><\/em> or <em><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/the-temple-of-the-golden-pavilion-\u91d1\u95a3\u5bfa\/\">The Temple of the Golden Pavilion<\/a><\/em>, both of which were written earlier than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0679750150\/rpcman\" target=\"_new\"><em>The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea<\/em><\/a>. The last few pages, however, reveal that Mishima was as sick and twisted as ever, maybe even more so. And that&#8217;s what makes his books so fascinating to read. I&#8217;m addicted and can&#8217;t stop.<\/p>\n<p>20 years ago I was a big fan of Steven King. I probably read 10 or more of his books in the space of a few months. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve read any Steven King since that brief episode in my life though. I think Steven King would be proud of the ending in <em>The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea<\/em>. I&#8217;d love to tell it to you, but for those who haven&#8217;t read it yet my telling would spoil everything for you.<\/p>\n<p>Why this was named <em>The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea<\/em> when the Japanese title is \u5348\u5f8c\u306e\u66f3\u822a I have no idea.<\/p>\n<p>Next up is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0679722416\/rpcman\" target=\"_new\"><em>Spring Snow<\/em><\/a>. Are there any other Mishima titles that I should absolutely not miss?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was my third Mishima novel in the past month. As I read it, with only a few exceptions, I felt that Mishima had mellowed in this work compared to Confessions of a Mask or The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, both of which were written earlier than The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[44,157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/1288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}