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Mishima's Sword - Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend (Hardcover) Loot Price: R288
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Mishima's Sword - Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend (Hardcover): Christopher Ross

Mishima's Sword - Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend (Hardcover)

Christopher Ross

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The stunning new book from Christopher Ross, Sunday Times top 10 bestselling author of 'Tunnel Visions'. On 25 November 1970, after a failed coup d'etat, Japanese writer Yukio Mishima plunged a knife into his tightly muscled belly, and was decapitated using 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 post-War constitution; the last act in a theatre of death; the epitaph of a mad genius. But which, if any, is correct? And what happened to Mishima's sword? Thirty years later Christopher Ross sets off for Tokyo on a journey into the heart of the Mishima Incident. While searching for Mishima's sword and reassessing the life and anachronistic death of this uniquely complex man, he encounters those who knew Mishima, craftsmen and critics, soldiers and swordsmen, boyfriends and biographers -- even the man who taught him hara-kiri. The cold trail he follows inspires digressions on, amongst other things, bushido and socks, mutineers and Noh ghosts, nosebleeds and metallurgy -- and how to dress for suicide. Like his best-selling 'Tunnel Visions', Christopher Ross has written another unclassifiable blend of travel writing, autobiography and philosophical quest, an insider's mesmeric account of modern Japan and a death that still haunts the nation.

General

Imprint: Fourth Estate
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: March 2006
Authors: Christopher Ross
Dimensions: 158 x 219 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - With dust jacket
Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 978-0-00-713508-0
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel writing > General
Books > Biography > General
Books > Travel > Travel writing > General
LSN: 0-00-713508-4
Barcode: 9780007135080

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