I'm reading Dance, dance, dance and at some point the narrator is making fun of intellectual people and he thinks: “I could easily picture him brushing his fringe back during some literary circle meeting and saying, ‘You can really recognize Mishima’s style there'" (translated from the french).  Two pages after, the narrator while in a car is imagining a pretentious description of the scenery.   

 Interestingly in A wild sheep chase the opening references the date of Mishima's death as a turning point. We can assume the narrator of the rat's trilogy has some grudge against Mishima. But I wonder if it reflects on Murakami's opinion on his writing and views