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Silk and Insight (Japanese: 絹と明察, Hepburn: Kinu to meisatsu) is a 1964 novel by the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. The subject of the novel is taken from an actual strike in Japan in 1954 at Omi Kenshi, a silk thread and fabric manufacturer, which lasted for 106 days. [2]
- Yukio Mishima, Frank Gibney, Hiro Sato
- 1964
Sep 1, 1987 · Yukio Mishima, Frank Gibney, Hiro Sato. 3.54. 67 ratings8 reviews. 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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If Silk and Insight seems unusual, one need only recall the 1956 novel The Temple of the Golden Pavilion to realize that historical fiction is simply a minor mode within which Mishima wrote. Like its more famous predecessor, Silk and Insight is a novelized account of an actual event with far-reaching implications: the pivotal 1954 labor strike at Omi Kenshi, a manufacturer of silk and thread.
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Published in 1964, Silk and Insight (Kinu to Meisatsu), is one of the last works of Yukio Mishima to be translated into English. Besides being a good novel, as one would expect from Mishima, it stands as an excellent piece of social commentary on the transformation of Japanese business from the old paternalism to a new world where labor unions were as active as any other institution in changing their image.One of Mishima's early novels and highly significant as a contribution to Japan's ...
May 31, 1998 · Yukio Mishima's 1964 novel, Silk and Insight (already an historical pun on wartime Japan's industrial policy motto, Silk and Warships) is among several of his novels based on real events. The Temple of The Golden Pavilion told the story of a real-life temple conflagration from the internal point of view of its zealot-turned-madman.
- Yukio Mishima, Frank Gibney, Hiro Sato
Silk and Insight is a 1964 novel by the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. The subject of the novel is taken from an actual strike in Japan in 1954 at Omi Kenshi, a silk thread and fabric manufacturer, which lasted for 106 days. The novel was first serialised in the monthly magazine Gunzo between January–October 1964. It was published in hardcover format by Kodansha on 15 October 1964. It was translated into English in 1998 by Hiroaki Sato.
