Sun & steel Paperback – 1 Jan. 1970

I've never seen anyone who talks about "aesthetics" and "physicality" actually define and contrast them like Mishima; they usually merely dance around the concepts and spout obscure platitudes.Not so with Mishima - his work is poetic but with purpose. Militant but vulnerable.This is an insight into a man who has learned what it means to build one's own sense of conviction.Most will not be ready for this; as a fencer myself it entered my life at the perfect time to understand it.The print I got was less than stellar with odd font choice and strange formatting which belie the deep value of the words within, but the knowledge itself is worth the price of admission.

I was struggling to find this book and amazon came in clutch. It's a great read this.

One of the many autobiographies that Mishima wrote in his life this book gives you a clear view of who he was at the time it was written. It can be a difficult to understand if you decide to read it all in one breathe. His thoughts and feelings develop in strange patterns and shaped that one can only follow if they take time to think over what they had just read before moving on.Reading this book it is very clear that he was a very disturbed man with a lot of issues that he tried to sort out but not always successfully. People that have read books like "The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima" (highly recommended) will find "Sun and Steal" to be the perfect compliment and to give that extra bit of information that you do not get from the other book.I would recommend this book to people that can appreciate Mishima's unique stile or writing and can understand the self-loathing he went through during the span of his short but creative life.

I have been a Mishima fan for over 40 years and new translations are still being released. This particular book is a re issue of one of Mishimas famous writings toward the end of his life. This is a book that you cannot rush and you can enjoy it if you take your time and then you can appreciate his true nature and uniqueness of his complex visions.

Sun and Steel is finally back in publication by the fantastic Rogue Scholar Press. The cover is great and the content is inspiring. I've purchased both a hard and soft cover. One for annotating and studying, the other for collection.

Lovely book but very thin for the hefty price tag. Felt very ripped off.

I had read about the author and his somewhat hedonistic fate a while ago and he intrigued me so I thought I’d give this a go. While it’s really interesting, it does have that same ego driving his writing which I found somewhat ironic because of his ‘selfless’ life. Good read overall but not sure I’d recommend it

WOULD NOT BUY! (I would give it 0 stars if I could.)I had to return it as it masks as the 1970's edition but it is actually a very cheap re-printed copy.The print is low quality on awfully thin and overall bad paper. The print on the cover is blurry and tilted.Overall - it looks more like a cheap magazine than a book.Feels like a scam and it is DEFINITELY not worth the 21£.