Books | How the visual arts shaped Japan's modern literature Jan 6, 2018
Yukio Mishima: Saints and seppuku
by Damian Flanagan
In March 1937, an official in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Azusa Hiraoka, traveled to Europe on government business and acquired some guides to Italian museums. Prudishly fearing, however, that his 12-year-old son might be exposed to the depictions of female nudes contained within, ...