Yukio

World Domination!My "act" has ended by becoming an integral part of my nature, I told myself. It's no longer an act. My knowledge that I am masquerading as a normal person has even corroded whatever of normality I originally possessed, ending by making me tell myself over and over again that it too was nothing but a pretense of normality. To say it another way, I'm becoming the sort of person who can't believe in anything except the counterfeit.In June of 1958 I began Kendo under Kendo Kyoshi 7th Dan Masami Yoshikawa, assistant instructor, Higashi Chofu Police StationThen in December 1958 I was practicing Kendo in the basement exercise hall of Daiichi Seimei under Kendo Kyoshi 7th Dan Takayuki Yamamoto On April 5, 1970 participated in the 1st World Kendo Championships, Nippon Budokan, Tokyo"The narcissism at the border separating adolescence from adulthood will make use of anything for it's own ends. Even the annihilation of the world. At twenty I was able to fancy myself as anything I liked. As a genius destined for an early death. As the final heir to the tradition of Japanese beauty. As a decadent among decadents, the last Emperor of an age of decadence. Even as Beauty's kamikaze squad.