Silk and Insight: A Novel
Yukio Mishima
240 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0765603004
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Language: English
Publish: May 31, 1998
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.