Yukio Mishima, Terror and Postmodern Japan [Paperback]

Richard Appignanesi (Author)

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Publication Date: December 25, 2002

Suicide by self-evisceration and beheading was the unique ritual code of the samurai. It was notoriously revived by the writer Yukio Mishima on November 25, 1970, after kidnapping a general at sword-point at a Tokyo military base and lecturing its soldiers on mutiny.

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Product Details

Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Totem Books (December 25, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1840463716
ISBN-13: 978-1840463712
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,635,302 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #69 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Sociology > Culture

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