Title: The wise bamboo
Description: The Wise Bamboo is an amusing, light-hearted memoir, telling of the author's six years as the General Manager of Tokyo's Imperial Hotel during the Allied Occupation following WWII. Beyond being a tremendously entertaining read, it is invaluable as a first-person account of the strengths and shortcomings of one of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright's most infamous buildings, as well as a fascinating glimpse into the clash of American and Japanese culture at this pivotal period in Japanese history.
Subjects: History, Teikoku Hoteru
Places: Japan
People: J. Malcolm Morris (1918-), Frank Lloyd Wright
Time periods: Allied occupation, 1945-1952