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Richard Appignanesi
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Yukio Mishima, Terror and Postmodern Japan |
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English |
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Paperback |
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160 |
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2002-12-25 |
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1840463716 |
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Totem Books |
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1.0 pounds |
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6.0 x 9.0 x 1.0 inches |
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Product Description
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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