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Mishima's Sword (Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend)
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Product Details
Author:
Christopher Ross
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
272
Publisher:
Grand Central Publishing (October 2, 2007)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9780306815683
ISBN-10:
0306815680
Case Pack:
44
File:
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Folder:
hbgusa
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$16.93
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$21.99
Publisher Identifier:
P-HACH
Discount Code:
A
Weight:
8.99oz
Dimensions:
5.5" x 8.25"
Audience:
General/trade
Country of Origin:
United States
Pub Discount:
65
Imprint:
Grand Central Publishing
Overview
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.
