text: The first novel by this author to appear in English was translated by Meredith Weatherby and has aprotagonist who reattaches a ship to a mooring buoy during a typhoon in order to prove his worthiness tomarry the shipowner's daughter.
full_question: The first novel by this author to appear in English was translated by Meredith Weatherby and has aprotagonist who reattaches a ship to a mooring buoy during a typhoon in order to prove his worthiness tomarry the shipowner's daughter. This author of a novel about the love between Hatsue (haht-soo-eh) andShinji also created a student at the Peers School who dies after falling in love with Satoko Ayakura, then(*) reappears as Isao Iinuma (ee-ee-nu-ma), Ying Chan, and Toru Yasunaga. This author of The Sound of Waveswrote about Shigekuni Honda in a four-volume sequence that includes Runaway Horses and Spring Snow. For 10points, name this Japanese author of the Sea of Fertility tetralogy and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, who committedseppuku after his nationalist coup failed.
first_sentence: The first novel by this author to appear in English was translated by Meredith Weatherby and has aprotagonist who reattaches a ship to a mooring buoy during a typhoon in order to prove his worthiness tomarry the shipowner's daughter.
raw_answer: Yukio Mishima [or Kimitake Hiraoka; accept either name in either order] 