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Komazawa Zenjiro runs his silk factory like a family and feels like a "father" to his workers. Through various intrigues initiated by the trade unionist Okano, the company's workers are instigated into a strike, which escalates to such an extent that Komazawa dies of a stroke. Okano takes over his
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The novel was a commercial failure, with only 18,000 copies published. In comparison, Mishima's novel
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as the seventh volume in The Library of Japan series, produced by the Pacific Basin Institute at
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between January 1964 and October 1964. It was published in hardcover format by
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Although a commercial failure, the novel was awarded the Mainichi Prize from
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Mishima originally intended for the novel to be translated into English by
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between January–October 1964. It was published in hardcover format by
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position, but comes to understand the philosophy of his predecessor.
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on 15 October 1964. It was translated into English in 1998 by
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was first serialised ten times in the monthly magazine
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Yukio Mishima
Hiroaki Sato
Gunzo
Kodansha
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672529106
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Japanese
Hepburn
Yukio Mishima
Gunzo
Kodansha
Hiroaki Sato
Mainichi Shimbun
Gunzo
Kodansha
Kodansha Bunko
Kyōko no Ie
John Nathan

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