Citation

Eha, Brian Patrick. (2021-10-18). Kamikaze of Beauty - On Yukio Mishima's Sun and Steel (The Point)

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• AuthorEha, Brian Patrick

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Yukio Mishima

1925-01-14 - 1970-11-25

Description

Essay on Mishima's Sun and Steel quoting the John Bester translation directly, including Mishima's account of beginning intensive physical training in 1955 at age thirty - weightlifting, running, boxing and kendo - and his stated ideal of reviving 'the old Japanese ideal of a combination of letters and the martial arts' (bunburyodo). Useful as an accessible English carrier of Sun and Steel's own statements about his physical culture.

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