Mishima's Sword: Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend, (Paperback)

from PhoenixTerran

If I remember correctly, I first came across Christopher Ross' Mishima's Sword: Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend while looking for biographies of Yukio Mishima. While Mishima certainly plays an important role in the book, Mishima's Sword isn't exactly a biography but still promised to be an ...

from anterastilis

Man, I've started and erased absolute essays on this book. I don't want to write a novel about a novel...but I probably could. One of poor colleagues saw me reading this book and asked, "What's it about?" Fifteen minutes later he was able to escape. Short of it: Yukio Mishima was a world-renowned...

from kidzdoc

The British writer Christopher Ross, who lived in Japan for five years, decides to return to Japan to search for the sword that Yukio Mishima used to commit seppuku (ritual suicide) in 1970, as a protest against the emasculation of the Japanese military and the removal of the Emperor as the head ...

from nandadevi

Surpassingly rich and delicate. Rather than a book about a person or his writing, this is a book about Japanese character and it's expression in life and in death. An essential adjunct to any biography of Mishima, but it is also one of a handful of books that gives some real insight into Japanese...

from kidzdoc

The British writer Christopher Ross, who lived in Japan for five years, decides to return to Japan to search for the sword that Yukio Mishima used to commit seppuku (ritual suicide) in 1970, as a protest against the emasculation of the Japanese military and the removal of the Emperor as the head ...