薔薇刑 = Ba-ra-kei = Ordeal by roses : photographs of Yukio Mishima /
Ba-ra-kei = [Barakei] = Ordeal by roses : photographs of Yukio Mishima / by Eikoh Hosoe ; preface by Yukio Mishima ; the photographers's note by Eikoh Hosoe ; afterword by Mark Holborn.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Aperture, [1985]Copyright date: ©1985Description: 99 variously numbered pages : chiefly illustrations ; 37 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 0893811696
- 9780893811693
- Barakei [Parallel title]
- Ordeal by roses : photographs of Yukio Mishima [Parallel title]
- Ordeal by roses [Parallel title]
- Barakai. English
- 779.2
- TR654 .H65713 1985
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Text in English.
Translation of: Barakei.
"Ba-ra-kei is the fierce and lyrical testament of the legendary Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, who shocked the world when he committed ritual suicide in 1970. The year marked Japan's new economic confidence, and Mishima accused the country of being "drunk with prosperity." Many in Japan regarded the suicide as a sensational act. However, with the publication of Mishima's final cycle of novels-conceived eight years prior to his death-it was revealed that his suicide was a carefully considered act, a gesture of historical implication in accord with the morbid and esoteric aesthetic that pervades his writing.Mishima's elaborate and erotic psyche was captured nine years before his death by master photographer Eikoh Hosoe. This collaboration resulted in surreal photographs of Mishima taken in the baroque interior of his home. The props that surround the writer are the antithesis of the Japanese sensibility of understatement, alluding to Mishima's dark, theatrical imagination. The images in Ba-ra-kei grant us entry into the private world of an extraordinary subject."--Publisher description.
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