Mishima"s Sword. In the footsteps of the legendary writer and samurai

It happened on November 25, 1970: after the failure of the state coup, Japanese writer, playwright, director and actor Yukio Misima stuck a knife into his muscular belly, after which he was beheaded with his own ancient sword. By making demonstrative suicide with punctual observance of all ancient rituals, Misima put his fans before the mystery of a more difficult, more fascinating, more gloomy, more passionate than all his work.
Thirty years later, Christopher Ross arrived in Tokyo in search of Misima"s sword, trying to solve the meaning of life and premature death of this unique and complex person. He meets with those who knew the writer: with artisans and critics, with soldiers and fighters on swords, with lovers and biographers, and even with a man who learned to Misima an ancient ritual Harakiri.
This book, as the life itself and the death of Misima, is a certain classification mixture of travel notes, biographical materials and philosophical surveys, fascinating the story of modern Japan, seen by the author from the inside, about the meaning of life and about the mysterious death of one of the most unusual people XX century