Description
Kendoka and owner of the Taiseido martial-arts bookshop in Shibuya, Tokyo;
elder brother of the Omori-ryu iai master Funasaka Yoshio. He was Mishima's
senior at the kendo dojo they both attended, and after Mishima wrote a laudatory
preface to his wartime memoir Eirei no Zekkyo (Cries of the Heroic Dead, 1966),
he let Mishima choose a sword from his collection in September 1966 - a blade
attributed to Seki no Magoroku that Japanese Wikipedia records he had bought
from Nakamura Yasuichiro for 50,000 yen, though Christopher Ross's
interviewee judged it a second-generation Kanemoto. The sword was used in the
Ichigaya incident of 25 November 1970.
Sources
"One morning in August 1966, Hiroshi Funasaka, owner of Taiseido Bookshop
in Tokyo's Shibuya and Mishima's senior at the kendo dojo they both
attend, asks Mishima if he might have time to look at a memoir he has written of
his wartime experiences."
— Ross, Christopher. (2006). Mishima's Sword -
Travels in Search of a Samurai Legendlinkinfo
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