Spring snow

"Spring Snow" is a complete and standalone novel, but at the same time, it is strongly connected to its three sister novels: "The Harvard Hounds," "Temple of Dawn," and "The Fall of the Angels," forming together Mishima's rare masterpiece in world literature: the "Sea of Fertility" tetralogy. The hero of "Spring Snow," the young man "Kiyawaki," a descendant of the noble Japanese Maxogai family, lives an unforgettable love story, with his friend "Honda" witnessing his unique and captivating love tale. In each subsequent volume, we find that the hero is nothing more than the first hero, but after his transmigration through reincarnation, he begins a new cycle of existence, and only "Honda" knows the connection linking the four heroes, through two specific elements: three birthmarks all the heroes share, and a set of wondrous dreams... Mishima was certain that his tetralogy was the culmination of everything he had learned as a writer. He pointed out to his friends that when he finished writing it, there would be only one thing left for him: "suicide" — and that indeed happened.