Sun and Steel
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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 experiances 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 by John Bester (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1970, ISBN 0870111175; New York, Grove Press, 1970, ISBN 0394177657; London, Secker and Warburg, 1971, ISBN 0436281554; Kodansha America reissue edition, 1994, ISBN 0870114255; Kodansha International, 2003, ISBN 4770029039).
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External links
- Sun and Steel (http://members.tripod.com/dennismichaeliannuzz/NoteBooksSun.HTML) at The Yukio Mishima Web Page.
- Review of Sun and Steel (http://www.glbtq.com/literature/mishima_y,3.html) by Seigo Nakao
- "The Samurai and the Ubermensch: Tragic Heroes" (http://users.aol.com/geinster/SAM.html) by John Marmysz compares Sun and Steel with Nietzsche's Ecce Homo.
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