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Yukio Mishima and "Ginza Hamasaku"

[CAM] 16:00 on June 11, 2016

It seems that Yukio Mishima met Mrs. Yoko's wife "Ginza Hamasaku".

 

 Naoki Inose's "Persona" states as follows.

 

>The meeting with Yoko Sugiyama was held on April 13, 1958. (Yuasa) Atsuko was present and ate at Hamasaku in Ginza. Then I invited him to a nightclub. While dancing, the step did not flow at all, so it was judged that "I'm barely going to play." Mishima thanked Atsuko and sent Yoko to his home. Atsuko thought it was going to be decided when he told me to send it to his home. The next day, I got a phone call from Mishima to Atsuko. He said, "Isn't that good?"

Immediately after that, Wabunju was admitted to the University of Tokyo Hospital. On the eve of hospitalization, Mishima had a "last supper" with Wabunju and Hamasaku. " (289)  

(Here, I say "The Last Supper" with my mother because she had been diagnosed as having another four months. However, as a result of surgery, it was found that the tumor was not malignant. )

 

 This matchmaking is stated in Wikipedia "Yoko Hiraoka" as follows.

 

>On April 13, Yuasa met Mishima at the German restaurant "Ketell" in Ginza, and after having dinner at "Hamasaku" with three people, then went to a nightclub in Aoyama. While dancing with Yoko, Mishima found out that Yoko was not out of play, and on the 14th of the following day, he reported to Yuasa that he liked it, "Isn't it quite good?" It is said that Yoko's impression was also happy, saying, "It was going to be something."

 

 

As mentioned earlier, Mishima has frequently used Ginza Hamasaku since then.

 

According to Takao Tokuoka's "People of the Fall" (Bunshun Bunko), the last time Tokuoka met Mishima was "Hamasaku". In September, just before Mishima's death in 1970, Tokuoka was called by Mishima to Hamasaku, and at that time Tokuoka seemed to have made a mistake of delaying 40 minutes in the promised time.

"I have never visited the store again because of my embarrassment of my failures and fear of returning memories. I remember saying "Kansai Kappo cuisine" next to the front door that I pulled out, so I think it was Hamasaku in Ginza. The lower floor was a counter, and the second floor was a parlor. When I ran up the stairs and entered the room, Mr. Mishima was lying on tatami mats. " (164).

 

 John Nathan said, "I met at 'Hamasaku' in Mishima and Ginza, and drank a lot of sake at a Shiraki counter. Mishima was in a good mood. Of course, I was too. Mishima thanked me for the translation and said that I was relieved to meet his expectations. " (John Nathan "Yukio Mishima: A Biography" translated by Takehiko Noguchi, Shinchosha)

I met him at Hamasaku, a Japanese-style restaurant on the Ginza patronized by the literary establishment. We ate at the wooden counter and drank a lot of sake. Mishima was in high spirits and naturally so was I. He thanked me for the translation; I expressed my relief at having lived up to his expectations. (JOHN NATHAN "MISHIMA A BIOGRAPHY; 204 )