Sun and Steel (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Yukio Mishima
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Essays
- Principal Characters: Yukio Mishima
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Suicide, Authors or writers, Art or artists, Symbolism, Life and death, Japan or Japanese people, Mind and body, Bodybuilding or body builders
Form and Content
On November 25, 1970, Yukio Mishima, a brilliant author of more than forty novels, short-story collections, plays, and essays, committed suicide after leading a group of his private army, the Tatenokai (shield society), into the office of a general in the Japanese Self-Defense forces in Tokyo and holding the officer hostage while he tried to rally the troops to cast off their role as a merely defensive force and honor the emperor by returning to the ancient Japanese traditions of the warrior. Mishima knew that the attempt to rouse the army was doomed and had...
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