{"product_id":"9780007135097_mishimas-sword-travels-in-search-of-a-samurai-legend","title":"Mishimas Sword: Travels In Search Of A Samurai Legend","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe stunning book from Christopher Ross, Sunday Times top 10 bestselling author of ‘Tunnel Visions’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1970 Japan's most famous writer, Yukio Mishima, cut open his stomach and was then beheaded with his own antique sword. His anachronistic suicide has been called many things: a desperate heroic gesture; a work of art; a political protest; the antics of a madman. But which is correct? And what became of Mishima's sword?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThirty years later Christopher Ross sets out for Japan on the trail of those who might have answers: craftsmen and critics; soldiers and swordsmen; boyfriends and biographers; even the man who taught Mishima hara-kiri. Like his best-selling ‘Tunnel Visions: Journeys of an Underground Philosopher’, Christopher Ross has written another unclassifiable blend of travel writing, autobiography and philosophical enquiry to create a mesmeric account of modern Japan and the peculiar death that haunts it to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Christopher Ross","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46895236350101,"sku":"9780007135097","price":26.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007135097_f96c50bb-be85-4a12-ad66-6b8cf3622a0a.jpg?v=1776888475","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007135097_mishimas-sword-travels-in-search-of-a-samurai-legend","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}