What is "shibumi"

Shibumi may refer to:

• Shibui, Japanese aesthetics
• Shibumi (novel), 1979 novel by Trevanian

Shibumi is a novel published in 1979, written in English by Trevanian, a pseudonym of Rodney William Whitaker.

Shibumi is set in the 1970s and details the struggle between the "Mother Company", a conspiracy of energy companies that secretly controls much of the western world, and a highly skilled assassin, Nicholaï Hel.