Gangsters, geishas, monks & me
Subtitle: a memoir of three years in the underbelly of Japan
By: Gordon Hutchison
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9781475158939
Subjects: Social conditions; Gangsters; Americans; Biography; Social life and customs
Description: As a young American in a Zen monastery in a small Japanese fishing town and later as that town's only resident foreigner, Gordon Hutchison knows mistakes have consequences. But when he befriends the local yakuza boss, his life takes a dramatic turn into the unforgiving dictates of gangsters and geishas-- where one misstep could cost him much more. Irreverent yet introspective, Gangsters, Geishas, Monks & Me chronicles Hutchison's odyssey through the foreigner-hostile backdrops of Zen, the yakuza and the "water trade" in his trial-by-fire initiation into Japanese culture.