Only knowledge can turn life's unbearableness into a weapon
More than one great quote from this one.
Liked the interaction of art, action, art and action, action as an art, art as an action. Of which seppuku is all?
The stories had a dash of theatre / surrealism which enjoyed through the well crafted colors and sets.
Only art makes human beauty endure. You must devise an artist's scheme to preserve it. You must commit suicide at the height of your beauty.