Ba Ra Kei: Ordeal by Roses. Photographs of Yukio Mishima by Eikoh Hosoe [Inscribed] Hosoe, Eikoh Art,Photography,Signed

Eikoh Hosoe. Yukio Mishima, preface. Mark Holburn, afterword. Ba Ra Kei: Ordeal by Roses. Photographs of Yukio Mishima by Eikoh Hosoe. New York: Aperture, 1985. First American edition. Inscribed by Eikoh Hosoe: "To Jim Newberry / On a day we renewed / our old friendship / June 25, 1985 / Eikoh Hosoe / n.y.c." Quarto. Unpaginated. Illustrated with photographs by Eikoh Hosoe. Publisher s purple cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in silver, endleaves in gray, original unclipped dust jacket. "Yukio Mishima, the most renowned writer in postwar Japan, shocked the whole world with his suicide in 1970. His ritual death created shockwaves that drew more attention in the West than the sublime quality of his prose. Shortly before his suicide, he worked closely with Eikoh Hosoe, the celebrated photographer, to prepare a monumental edition of their epic achievement Barakei. This book is the first Western edition of that extraordinary collaboration between a visionary genius and a brilliant photographer." .