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Spring snow

By Yukio Mishima

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The first novel of Mishima's landmark tetralogy, The Sea of fertility

Spring Snow is set in Tokyo in 1912, when the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders -- rich provincial families unburdened by tradition, whose money and vitality make thContinue

The first novel of Mishima's landmark tetralogy, The Sea of fertility

Spring Snow is set in Tokyo in 1912, when the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders -- rich provincial families unburdened by tradition, whose money and vitality make them formidable contenders for social and political power.

Among this rising new elite are the ambitious Matsugae, whose son has been raised in a family of the waning aristocracy, the elegant and attenuated Ayakura. Coming of age, he is caught up in the tensions between old and new -- fiercely loving and hating the exquisite, spirited Ayakura Satoko. He suffers in psychic paralysis until the shock of her engagement to a royal prince shows him the magnitude of his passion, and leads to a love affair that is as doomed as it was inevitable.

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  • Yukio Mishima–SPRING SNOW

    “The age of glorious wars ended with the Meiji era…There isn’t much chance to die now on the battlefield. But now that old wars are finished, a new kind of war has just begun; this is the era for the war of emotion…And just as in the old wars, there ... (read full critics)

    marywhipplereviews published on Sat, 4 Sep 2010

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  • "They embraced immediately in the shadow of the boat as the sea breeze swirled around them...but even as she felt herself dissolving gradually into the darkness, she felt afraid...they were not lying in the protection of a solid structure or a rocky ridge, but of something fortuitous...had the boat ... (continue)

    "They embraced immediately in the shadow of the boat as the sea breeze swirled around them...but even as she felt herself dissolving gradually into the darkness, she felt afraid...they were not lying in the protection of a solid structure or a rocky ridge, but of something fortuitous...had the boat not happened to be beached there at the moment, its heavy shadow would have been no more real than a ghost. She was afraid that...(the boat) might begin to slide noiselessly...even now and plunge into the water and sail away. To follow its shadow, to remain forever within it, she herself would have to become the sea. And at that moment, in a single great surge, she did.”

    柯德莉藍的海，豐饒之海

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