Kosaburo Eto
Early life. Kosaburo Eto was born in Saga prefecture on 20 April 1946, the great-grandson of Eto Shinpei, a statesman during the Meiji restoration, the grandson of Eto Shinsaku, a member of the House of Representatives of Japan and close adviser of Inukai Tsuyoshi and the third son of Eto Natsuo, a member of the House of Representatives of Japan. He left Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Cadet School in Yokosuka without a diploma. Ritual suicide and an impact on Yukio Mishima. On 11 February 1969 (the National Foundation Day of Japan) aged 23, he committed suicide  through self-immolation next to the Memorial Hall of Constitutional Politics, located in front of the Houses of Parliament. He left a "kakuseisho" (覚醒書) (suicide letter) expressing alarm over the state of the Nation. In 1969 the leading Japanese literary figure and nationalist Yukio Mishima noted in his　 as "I am one of the readers who read the most intense criticism against the politics as a dream or art for seriousness of Young Kosaburo Eto, who set himself on fire". Aftermath. On 11 February 1975, a memorial ceremony in honour of the life of Kosaburo Eto took place at Nogi  Shrine, in Akasaka, Tokyo. Section::::"Jisei no Uta" (death poem). Eto's "kakuseisho" ended with the following "jisei" or death poem, a common element in Japanese ritual suicide.: "Under the silhouette of the big camphor tree swinging in the stiff wind against the sky, I think - who knows the Mikado's will, perhaps nobody knows it". "I know if I take risks, it makes no difference to me, but I dare to act with a Yamato Spirit." He wrote three "kakuseisho" and sent them to Shintaro Ishihara, Yukio Mishima, and Kiyoshi Oka.