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