“They refrained from taking a honeymoon trip, these being times of national emergency. The couple spent their wedding night at this house. Before going to bed Shinji knelt formally on the matted floor with his sword laid at his knees and bestowed on his wife a soldierly lecture. A woman who had become the wife of a soldier should know and resolutely accept that her husband’s death could come at any moment. It could be tomorrow. It could be the day after. But no matter when it came-he asked-was she steadfast in her resolve to accept it? Reiko rose to her feet, pulled out a drawer of the cabinet and took out what was the most prized of her new possessions, the dagger her mother had given her. Returning to her place, she laid the dagger without a word on the mat before her just as the husband had laid his sword. A silent understanding was achieved at once, and the lieutenant never again sought to test his wife’s resolve.”
Yukio Mishima, “Patriotism”.
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