Mishima's Sword

Name: Mishima's Sword
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ISBN: 9780306815133

ISBN-10: 0306815133

ISBN-13: 9780306815133

Edition: N/A

Authors: Christopher Ross

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In 1970, the world-famous Japanese writer Yukio Mishima plunged a knife into his belly and was decapitated using his own antique sword. In the decades since, people have asked endless far-ranging questions about this spectacular suicide. Christopher Ross wondered, What on earth happened to Mishima's sword? And so Ross sets off for Tokyo on a journey into the heart of the Mishima legend--the very heart of Japan. It was a country Ross knew well after nearly five years of living there--but nothing could have prepared him for this. While searching for the fabled sword, Ross encounters the rather startling range of those who knew Mishima...a world, or perhaps more accurately a demimonde, of…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Publisher: Hachette Books
Publication date: 10/31/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



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Death in Tokyo


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