The Sea of Fertility (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Yukio Mishima
- Type of Work: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1912-1975
- Setting: Tokyo, Nara, and Osaka in Japan; Thailand; and India
- Principal Characters: Matsugae Kiyoaki, Isao Iinuma, Ying Chan, Toru Yasunaga, Shigekuni Honda
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Suicide, Death or dying, India or East Indian people, Personality, Idealism, Terrorism or terrorists, Reincarnation, Japan or Japanese people, Southeast Asia, Aging, Voyeurism
- Locales: Japan, India, Thailand
The Novels
The first volume of The Sea of Fertility, Spring Snow, introduces two schoolmates, Kiyoaki and Honda, at the Peers School, an exclusive academy. The exposition reveals Kiyoaki’s background. His father, Marquis Matsugae, a wealthy man from an old samurai family, sends his only son to be reared in the aristocratic household of Count Ayakura. Kiyoaki thus grows up with Ayakura Satoko, a beautiful girl two years his senior. The main plot of the first volume is the love story of these childhood friends, which ends tragically with Satoko’s retirement to a...
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