Revisiting the Sea of Fertility

It’s been prob­a­bly 25 years since I first read Yukio Mishi­ma’s *Sea of Fer­til­i­ty* tetral­o­gy, the first book of which is *Spring Snow*. 

I’m quite pleased to have picked up Mishi­ma again. Oth­er than reread­ing some of his short sto­ries (and *The Sound of Waves* which I read aloud with a woman I dat­ed sev­er­al years ago) I don’t think I’ve read any Mishi­ma since my late teens or ear­ly twen­ties. In the last ten years or more I’ve read … Read the rest