Mishima’s Sword: Travels in Search of a Samurai LegendThe stunning book from Christopher Ross, Sunday Times top 10 bestselling author of Tunnel Visions. In 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? Thirty years later Christopher