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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).
External links
- Sun and Steel at The Yukio Mishima Web Page.
- Review of Sun and Steel by Seigo Nakao
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