For 10 points, name this Japanese author of The Sea of Fertility tetralogy.
This author created a character who accidentally steps in a patch of snow in which the name of his unrequited love is written. This author wrote about a man who recognizes three moles on the skin of a young kendo student and believes that the student is the reincarnation of his friend Kiyoaki. The protagonist of a semi-autobiographical novel by this writer admires a picture of a knight until a nun tells him that it depicts Joan of Arc. This author wrote from the perspective of Kochan in Confessions of a Mask and wrote about Shigekuni Honda in novels like Spring Snow and The Temple of Dawn. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of The Sea of Fertility tetralogy.
This author created a character who accidentally steps in a patch of snow in which the name of his unrequited love is written.
Yukio Mishima [or Mishima Yukio; or Kimitake Hiraoka; or Hiraoka Kimitake]