Silk and Insight by Mishima, Yukio (9780765603005)

Silk and Insight

by Mishima, Yukio , Gibney, Frank , Sato, Hiro

Paperback - English

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.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

0765603004

EAN

9780765603005

Publisher

M E SHARPE INC

Publication Date

31 May 1998

Pages

232

Age Group

18 to 18

Grades

13 to 13

Weight (kg)

0.34

Dimensions (cm)

22.9 x 15.3 x 1.6

Lexile Level

1120

About Author

Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) was many people. The best known in Japan of the writers to emerge there after World War II, he was by far the most published abroad. Mishima completed his first novel the year he entered the University of Tokyo. More followed (some twenty-three, the last completed the day of his death in November, 1970), along with more than forty play, over ninety short stories, several poetry and travel volumes and hundreds of essays. Influenced by European literature, in which he was exceptionally well read, he was an interpreter to his own people of Japan's ancient virtues, to whi