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






















