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Mishima's Sword - Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend (Paperback)
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Mishima's Sword - Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend (Paperback)
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On November 25, 1970, the world renowned Japanese writer Yukio
Mishima committed "seppuku" with his own antique sword. Mishima's
spectacular suicide has been called many things: a hankering for
heroism; a beautiful, perverse drama; a political protest against
Japan's emasculated postwar constitution; the epitaph of a mad
genius. Part travelogue, part biography, and part philosophical
treatise, "Mishima's Sword" is the story of Christopher Ross's
journey to find a sword and maybe an understanding of Mishima's
country. The cold trail the author follows inspires a tale of the
most engaging-and occasionally bizarre-sort, with glimpses of the
real Japan that is not seen by tourists, with digressions on, among
other things, bushido and socks, mutineers and Noh ghosts,
nosebleeds and metallurgy-and even how to dress for suicide.
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