Toyoko Yamazaki Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

誇り、家族、一生を賭けた仕事。すべてを失った弓成に、思いがけないニュースが届く。沖縄基地問題の原点を見据える巨篇、完結

地裁判決が2人の明暗を分けた。女が週刊誌に発表した手記が、波紋を広げていく。強大な国家権力に追い詰められた弓成の運命は?

昭和46年春、特ダネ記者の弓成亮太は沖縄返還交渉にまつわる密約の存在に勘づく。熾烈なスクープ合戦の中、彼はある女性と......

フォーク社との虚々実々の交渉の裏で、壹岐は資源に乏しい日本の将来を見据え、原油確保の手段を模索していた。腹心の部下・兵頭はイランやリビアに飛び、文化や商習慣の違いに悩まされながら油田開発の可能性を探る。一方、フォーク社との交渉は最終段階に至って、ライバル東京商事の暗躍で思いもかけない展開に……。専務に昇進し、近畿商事ナンバー3となった壹岐の戦いは続く。

Bonchi is the story of Kikuji, the handsome and profligate heir to an established commercial house. When his father dies, young Kikuji becomes bonchi, boss of the firm. He is adroit at business but helpless at taking charge of his personal life. Domestic control has for generations been a maternal prerogative in his family. Once he passes beneath the crested banner separating store from house, Kikuji is in a matriarchal world. His mother and grandmother arrange and then destroy his marriage and intend to go on manipulating even his most intimate affairs. Because he cannot resist maternal interference at home, he seeks relief from it in the pleasure quarter, where mastery of women is a simple financial affair. As the years pass and his business prospers, Kikuji spends lavishly, becoming a teahouse connoisseur. With each beautiful mistress he acquires, his prestige rises, but he remains emotionally barren and vaguely discontent. His compulsion for independence becomes mere aimlessness, and his desire for self-determination degenerates into subtle opportunism. The fundamental conflict between individual freedom and responsibility to others so prevalent in Japanese writing is presented here with fresh urgency and grace.