Well, as you know Bob, Poundanfenollosa introduced Yeats to Noh, as a result of which Yeats wrote "Four Plays for Dancers," which Mishima later read and enjoyed to the point where he wrote his own collection of "modern Noh plays". Check this out:
I don't mean to imply that secretly Mishima was an Irish folklore geek or anything but his interests were broader and more multicultural than the popular image (hachimaki, Tatenokai, etc.) might imply.
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Date: 10 August 2012 12:29 am (UTC)http://repository.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/dspace/handle/2261/48569
I don't mean to imply that secretly Mishima was an Irish folklore geek or anything but his interests were broader and more multicultural than the popular image (hachimaki, Tatenokai, etc.) might imply.