Question
One essay by this author describes how he used the two title entities to “cultivate his orchard” in a metaphor explaining bodybuilding as an art. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this creator of a character who ponders “perhaps there has been no I” after an abbess doesn’t recall if another character existed. Afterward, this author’s character wanders in a garden that had “no memories, nothing.”
ANSWER: Yukio Mishima
[10e] Mishima finished that last book in the Sea of Fertility tetralogy shortly before a failed attempt at a coup led him to do this action. Akutagawa wrote “A Note to a Certain Old Friend” before doing this action at 35.
ANSWER: committing suicide [accept harakiri or seppuku or descriptive equivalents]
[10m] This Mishima novel, in which Kochan’s repressed homosexuality and admiration for masculinity leads him to be ashamed of admiring a picture of Joan of Arc, is speculated to be semi-autobiographical.
ANSWER: Confessions of a Mask [accept Kamen no Kokuhaku]
Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Syracuse+Rochester | RIT | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |