ALS, three pages, 10 x 7, Biwako Hotel letterhead, September 5, 1963. Letter to novelist John Goodwin, in part: “I finally got a chance to read your ‘A View of Fuji’…Your book is lovely and beautiful like a small artificial Japanese garden with its unexpressable melancholy. I should say I am one of most chosen reader of this novel, because I think I can feel both side of this story. As the matter of fact, I have personally known such a sort of sentimental, weak, stupid, poor, and on the contrary extremely strong by his natural mysticism. On the other hand, I also know a lonesome tourist’s psychology in a foreign country…Now I am on a tip at Shiga Prefecture near by Kyoto to gather materials for my new novel. It will be a satiric novel of a president of a big silk-weaving company who pretends like a ‘big daddy’ to all labourers and double-crossed by them by a big terrible strike.” In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope addressed in Mishima’s own hand, incorporating his full name in the return address area. The project Mishima refers to in this letter was published the following year under the title Silk and Insight. A lengthy, extremely desirable letter by the renowned author. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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