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Sun and Steel: Art, Action and Ritual Death is a book by Yukio Mishima. It is an autobiographical essay, a memoir of the author's relationship to his body. The book recounts the author's experiences with, and reflections upon, his bodybuilding and martial arts training.

The book was first published in 1968, gathering what had appeared in the Takeshi Maramatsu founded magazine Criticism from late 1965 on. It was translated to English by John Bester (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1970, ISBN 0-87011-117-5; New York, Grove Press, 1970, ISBN 0-394-17765-7; London, Secker and Warburg, 1971, ISBN 0-436-28155-4; Kodansha America reissue edition, 1994, ISBN 0-87011-425-5; Kodansha International, 2003, ISBN 4-7700-2903-9).

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Bibliography
Prose books	Confessions of a Mask (1949) Thirst for Love (1950) Forbidden Colors (1951, 1953) Death in Midsummer and Other Stories (1952) The Sound of Waves (1954) The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1956) Kyoko's House (1959) After the Banquet (1960) The Frolic of the Beasts (1961) Beautiful Star (1962) The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1963) The School of Flesh (1964) Silk and Insight (1964) Acts of Worship (1965) Sun and Steel (1968) Life for Sale (1968) The Sea of Fertility Spring Snow (1969) Runaway Horses (1969) The Temple of Dawn (1970) The Decay of the Angel (1971)
Short stories	"Death in Midsummer" (1952) "Patriotism" (1960) "Star" (1960)
Drama	Five Modern Noh Plays (1950–1955) The Lady Aoi (1954) Iwashi Uri Koi Hikiami (1954) Rokumeikan (1956) Madame de Sade (1965) My Friend Hitler (1968)
Film	Patriotism (1966)
Works about	The Moon in the Water (1979) Mishima: A Vision of the Void (1981) Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) 11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate (2012) Persona: A Biography of Yukio Mishima (2012)
Related topics	Conservatism in Japan Tatenokai Yukio Mishima Prize The Lady Aoi (Bahram Beyzai production)

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