Word: ume
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tasaki gets the old and new Japans squared off against each other by rigging up two brother & sister teams of near-vaudeville quality. Ko-ume, the gorgeous and traditional geisha, can't hope to land Minoru, the weakling son of a count. The girl who successfully bucks Ko-ume is rich, intelligent, beautiful, and a nobleman's daughter besides. Ko-ume naturally does the natural thing: she hops off a cliff. Ko-ume's brother Takeo is something else, a young peasant back from the infantry whose earthiness envelops the count's liberal daughter before...
Businessman Tasaki says little to the point about the new Japan, and he says it in prose so lugubrious that it can be read for laughs. Sample: ". . . For [Ko-ume] thought if she recognized her love for Minoru, she would present her all to him before she knew whether he would be faithful or not, and with the possibility that she would advance to her ultimate destruction at the hands-of some sinister infidelity on his part." Novelist Tasaki obviously wishes to show that Japan is headed toward a new and more wholesome social point of view. What...