| Silk and Insight Contributor(s): Mishima, Yukio (Author), Gibney, Frank (Author), Sato, Hiro (Author) |
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ISBN: 0765602997 ISBN-13: 9780765602992 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $180.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 1998 Annotation: An important contribution to Japan's postwar literature and politics, this early work by Yukio Mishima, one of twentieth-century Japan's greatest novelists, is based on the strike which took place in the mid-1950s at Omi Kenshi, a silk manufacturer not far from Kyoto. Mishima's characters are fascinating and thoroughly believable, and the events described faithfully reflect the management/labor tensions of that period. Superbly translated by Hiro Sato, this is one of the last works of Mishima to be translated into English. It remains a fascinating work of literature and an excellent piece of social commentary on the transformation of Japanese business from the old paternalism -- which was by no means all that benevolent -- to a new world where labor unions were as active as any social institution in enhancing their image |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Literary Criticism | Australian & Oceanian - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 98-11263 |
| Lexile Measure: 1120 |
| Series: Studies of the Pacific Basin Institute |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6.26" W x 9.26" (1.10 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Japanese - Ethnic Orientation - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is a tale based on the strike which took place in the mid-1950s at Omi Kenshi, a silk manufacturer not far from Tokyo. The events described reflect the management / labour tensions of the period and is a piece of social commentary on the transformation of Japanese business. |