Noboru: Mishima’s Life Story For Noboru Kuroda in Yukio Mishima’s The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea life consisted of thing: objecting to the adult world and all the emotions that came with it. Through words in his diary and actions in the gang, Noboru slowly separated from society and adopted radical beliefs. In these ways Noboru was a reflection of the life of Mishima and the views he had of …showed first 75 words of 532 total…

…showed last 75 words of 532 total…old whom he created, Noboru. It was Noboru’s mission to return Ryuji to his glorified days at sea through death, symbolically implying Mishima’s mission to return Japan to her glorified days through the death of western ideals. Similarly both stories end in death but they do not end in tragedy because through Bushido Mishima was born into traditional Japanese legacy, and through his death Ryuji was born into the idealistic life at sea.