Mishima's Sword: Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Mishima's Sword: Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend Book

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.Read More

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  • 0306815680
  • 9780306815683
  • Christopher Ross
  • 15 December 2007
  • Da Capo Press Inc
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 272
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