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闘いの構図 上 (朝日文庫 あ 14-1)

Hirabayashi Taiko Literary Award

闘いの構図 上 (朝日文庫 あ 14-1)

Koji Aoyama

A nonfiction novel reconstructing a major 1925 disturbance in Tsurumi, Yokohama, from testimony and documents. It follows how conflict over subcontracting for a thermal power plant project escalated into a battle involving more than a thousand men.

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Work Information

It redraws the Tsurumi disturbance from testimony and documents as the structure of a massive fight.

Tatakai no Kozu uses the Tsurumi disturbance to depict construction labor, outlaw networks, corporate conflict, and chains of violence in modern Japan. By piling up fact-based detail, it follows how individual clashes reveal the structure of an era.

Review Summaries

  • The Asahi Bunko description frames the work as the story of a December 1925 subcontracting conflict in Tsurumi that grew into one of Japan's largest fights involving over a thousand men.

  • The Shincho Bunko commentary reads it as a work of strong impact built from meticulous investigation and the reconstruction of a large mass of detail.

Book Information

Publisher
朝日新聞出版
Published
1991-10-01
Pages
554 pages
Language
日本語
ISBN-13
9784022606723
ISBN-10
402260672X
Price
1117 JPY
Category
本/文学・評論/文芸作品/日本文学

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