The Sea of Fertility Series by Yukio Mishima, Michael Gallagher

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  • Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility #1)
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    Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility #1)

    Yukio Mishima, Michael Gallagher

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1967

    Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial families, a new and powerful political and social elite.Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant Ayakura family - members of the waning aristocracy - but he is not one of them. Coming of age, he is caught up in the tensions between the old and the new, and his feelings for the exquisite, spirited Satoko, observed from the sidelines by his devoted friend Honda... more

  • Runaway Horses (The Sea of Fertility #2)
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    Runaway Horses (The Sea of Fertility #2)

    Yukio Mishima, Michael Gallagher

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1969

    Isao is a young, engaging patriot, and a fanatical believer in the ancient samurai ethos. He turns terrorist, organising a violent plot against the new industrialists, who he believes are threatening the integrity of Japan and usurping the Emperor’s rightful power. As the conspiracy unfolds and unravels, Mishima brilliantly chronicles the conflicts of a decade that saw the fabric of Japanese life torn apart.

  • The Temple of Dawn (The Sea of Fertility #3)
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    The Temple of Dawn (The Sea of Fertility #3)

    Yukio Mishima

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1970

    Yukio Mishima’s The Temple of Dawn is the third novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Here, Shigekuni Honda continues his pursuit of the successive reincarnations of Kiyoaki Matsugae, his childhood friend.   Travelling in Thailand in the early 1940s, Shigekuni Honda, now a brilliant lawyer, is granted an audience with a young Thai princess—an encounter that radically alters the course of his life... more

  • The Decay of the Angel (The Sea of Fertility #4)
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    The Decay of the Angel (The Sea of Fertility #4)

    Yukio Mishima

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1970

    The dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility tetraology takes place in the late 1960s. Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, discovers and adopts a sixteen-year-old orphan, Toru, as his heir, identifying him with the tragic protagonists of the three previous novels, each of whom died at the age of twenty. Honda raises and educates the boy, yet watches him, waiting.

  • The Sea of Fertility (The Sea of Fertility #1-4)
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    The Sea of Fertility (The Sea of Fertility #1-4)

    Yukio Mishima, Michael Gallagher

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1970

    A tetralogy containing "Spring Snow", a love story, "Runaway Horses", with a protagonist a right-wing terrorist, "The Temple of Dawn", where a Thai princess is mystically linked with the heroes of the preceding works and, written under the shadow of the author's death, "The Decay of the Angel".

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