Penguin reprinted several volumes of Mishima in their Vintage line in 2010 with covers designed by Anna Crone. Seven of the covers are shown here although there are one or two more, not all of them available as large images. (Not for the first time I wonder why major publishers don’t make their new covers available at a decent size.) I’d have been wary of using Hokusai’s waves on a Mishima cover but colouring the water red makes it readable as a wave of blood.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The book covers archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
• Tamotsu Yato’s men with katanas
• Forbidden Colours
• Mishima’s Rite of Love and Death