Ba-ra-kei

Ordeal by Roses

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Author

Eikō Hosoe

Contributions

Mark Holborn (Contributor) - Contributor
Yukio Mishima (Contributor) - Contributor
Eikoh Hosoe (Photographer) - Contributor

Publication

2005-06-15 - Aperture

Language

English

Word Count

25,000 words, Guess

Page Count

100 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

ISBN-100893811696
ISBN-139780893811693
LibraryThing2400146
Goodreads162769
Open LibraryOL8236180M

and 1 more

Open LibraryOL2875739M

Classifications

DDC779/.092
LCCTR654 .H65713 1985

Description

Ba-ra-kei Ordeal by Roses is a rare glimpse into the life of the great modern Japanese writer, Yukio Mishima, who ended his life in 1970 by ritual suicide. Many in Japan regarded the suicide as a sensational act. However, the publication of Mishima's final cycle of novels, which had been conceived eight years prior to his death, revealed that his death was carefully considered--a gesture of historical import in perfect accord with the morbid and esoteric aesthetic that pervades his writing. In 1961 Mishima asked Eikoh Hosoe to photograph him, giving him full artistic direction in making these surreal and alluring photographs. The props that surround the writer and the baroque interior of his home are antithetical to the pure Japanese sensibility of understatement and reveal Mishima's dark, theatrical imagination.