"The Sun and Iron" Author: [Japan] Yukio Mishima Publisher: Writer's Publishing House

"The Sun and Iron" is a collection of prose essays by Yukio Mishima that deeply analyze himself. It can be regarded as Mishima's artistic and ideological suicide note. In the article, Yukio Mishima commented on himself, "I discovered a subtle and ambiguous field, and figured out a form suitable for this kind of confession, which is the middle form between confession and criticism. It can also be said that this is - secret criticism." The book also includes Yukio Mishima's memoir of his literary journey, "The Era I Experienced."