" Set during the early Taisho era, this novel follows a young member of the upstart Matsugae (mah-tsu-GAH-eh) clan with three moles on his le7t side, which reappear on his subsequent incarnations as Isao and Ying Chan.
During a conversation about history in this novel, a character describes the human Will standing alone in a public square, where his 6lesh melts o5f when the God of Inevitability proclaims that Chance does not exist. In another episode from this novel, two exchange students si7t through two hundred yards of wet grass for an emerald-set gold ring engraved with the faces of two yaksha. In this novel, the maid Tadeshina (tah-day-SHEE-nah) helps a teenager who keeps a prophetic dream-diary arrange secret trysts with a woman from the declining Ayakura family. At the end of this novel, Satoko joins Gesshu Temple to become a nun, causing her lover to become deathly ill and promise to see his friend again "beneath the falls." Set during the early Taisho era, this novel follows a young member of the upstart Matsugae (mah-tsu-GAH-eh) clan with three moles on his le7t side, which reappear on his subsequent incarnations as Isao and Ying Chan. For 10 points, name this novel about the friends Kiyoaki Matsugae and Shigekuni Honda, the 3rst novel in Yukio Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetralogy.
During a conversation about history in this novel, a character describes the human Will standing alone in a public square, where his 6lesh melts o5f when the God of Inevitability proclaims that Chance does not exist.
Spring Snow [or Haru no Yuki; prompt on the Sea of Fertility]