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product_id: 651560177
title: "Sun and Steel"
brand: "yukio mishima"
price: "R$467"
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# Sun and Steel

**Brand:** yukio mishima
**Price:** R$467
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Sun and Steel by yukio mishima
- **How much does it cost?** R$467 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Description

Sun and Steel

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Props to Mishima, a philosopher who walked his talk
  

*by S***H on Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2005*

This book is a literary type that was once common in Japan, the self-obsessive partial memoir. But Mishima's style, tone, and content are absolutely unique.He writes about the relation between world and word, body and mind or spirit. But to me, the most interesting aspect of this book, and Mishima's whole outlook is something that's often overlooked. It is this, he could not stand ugliness. He shrank from (his own perception of) ugliness as we would from a rabid rat. So then, how did he define beauty and ugliness? You may call it shallow but no matter, this book makes no apologies: beauty or ugliness lie in physical appearance, body and face.To most of us there are many kinds of beauty, and maybe that multi-perception keeps us going - we see or imagine the beauty of inner virtue, selfless giving, artistic projection, humility or humor and so on. A wide expansive definition.But there's room on your bookshelf for somebody who takes an uncompromising view: beauty is the beauty of your body and your appearance. While it can be crafted and guided by external method (who knows what Mishima would have thought of the cosmetic surgery craze now sweeping China), ultimately physical beauty to him is the only important projection of the soul.The insanely monomaniacal American football coach Vince Lombardi once said "Winning isn't everything - it's the only thing". This book, despite all its meandering and subtle threads, is really saying just that, about beauty - it's the only thing. And Mishima, at mid-life, was losing all illusions about attaining or retaining any personal beauty.Of course what sheds the interesting backlight on this book for most readers is Mishima's dramatic seppuku at Ichigaya Japan self-defense force headquarters. (Reminds me of the wit who stated, when informed of Sylvia Plath's suicide, "Good career move".) People read this book to try to unravel the mystery of it.But in light of what I've said above, about beauty and Mishima's uniquely narrow definition of it, this book leaves no mystery to his action. Just as Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray slashed the ugliness accumulated on his horribly aging portrait, Mishima, lacking a magic painting, did just the same to his own body - sentenced it to death for the crimes of aging and ugliness.It is entirely summed up by the following single line from 'Sun and Steel':"I had already lost the morning face that belongs to youth alone."

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Fundamental to understanding Mishimas' through process.
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2021*

As the title stated I think this is good insight into how mishima sees the world.  It gives further context to his other works.  It is a truely great read and I think many young men could benefit from the world view mishima embraces through his self discovery illustrated in this short piece.  Maybe not to its extreme conclusion (mishima committed seppuku),  but the importance of "sun and steel" in the maturity of masculinity in a young mans life.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Raising Llamas
  

*by K***E on Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2022*

Okay. That was a pretty nice troll to replace the entire book with how to raise llamas. Still, I want my $30 back.

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*Last updated: 2026-03-07*