Sun and Steel (essay)

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Sun and Steel: Art, Action and Ritual Death (Japanese: 太陽と鉄, Hepburn: Taiyō to Tetsu) 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 into English by John Bester (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1970, ISBN 0-87011-117-5; New York City, 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). In 1972, the American fiction writer Hortense Calisher billed the book as "a classic of self-revelation" and Mishima as "a mind of the utmost subtlety, broadly educated". Calisher wrote, "To paraphrase him in words not his, [...] is to try to build a china pagoda with a peck of nails. [...] only the frivolous will not empathize with what is going on here; this is a being for whom life--and death too--must be exigeant."^[1]

References

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^ Calisher, Hortense (1972-11-12). "Spring Snow". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-10-08.

External links

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Sun and Steel at The Yukio Mishima Web Page.
Nakao, Seigo (October 12, 2007) [2002]. "Mishima, Yukio (1925-1970)". In Summers, Claude J. (ed.). glbtq: An encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer culture. Chicago: glbtq, Inc. § Sun and Steel. Archived from the original on 14 February 2012.

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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) 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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