$13.95 – Paperback / New Directions Publishing Corporation / United States
Patriotism
By now, Yukio Mishima’s (1925-1970) dramatic demise through an act of seppuku after an inflammatory public speech has become the stuff of literary legend. With Patriotism, Mishima was able to give his heartwrenching patriotic idealism an immortal vessel. Shinji Takeyama, a lieutenant in the Japanese army, comes home to his wife and informs her that his closest friends have become mutineers. Torn between his allegiances to the Emperor and his rebellious friends, Shinji and his beautiful, loyal wife Reiko decide to end their lives together. With an incredible eye for detail, Mishima describes Shinji and Reiko making love for the last time and the ritual suicide by seppuku that follows.
Yukio Mishima
Patriotism
$13.95 – Paperback / New Directions Publishing Corporation
One of the most powerful short stories ever written: Yukio Mishima's masterpiece about the erotics of patriotism and honor, love and suicide. Buy or find out more→
Temple of the Golden Pavillion
$12.95 – Paperback / Vintage
Bringing together Mishima's preoccupations with violence, desire, religious life and the history of Japan, this novel is based on an actual incident, the burning of a celebrated temple. The novel is a meditation on the state of... Buy or find out more→
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
$12.95 – Paperback / Vintage
THE SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA tells of a band of savage thirteen-year-old boys who reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call... Buy or find out more→
Confessions of a Mask
$17.95 – Paperback / New Directions Publishing Corporation
Confessions of a Mask is one of the classics of modern Japanese fiction. It is the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact that he is unlike other young men. Mishima's protagonist discovers that he... Buy or find out more→
Five Modern No Plays
$21.95 – Paperback / Random House USA Inc
Japanese No drama is one of the great art forms that has fascinated people throughout the world. The late Yukio Mishima, one of Japan's outstanding post-war writers, infused new life into the form by using it for plays that... Buy or find out more→
Thirst for Love
$12.95 – Paperback / Vintage
One of the outstanding writers of the world' New York Times After the early death of her philandering husband, Etsuko moves into her father-in-law's house, where she numbly submits to the old man's advances. But soon she... Buy or find out more→