One of this author's characters works 24-hour shifts as a harbor signalman and sleeps with a woman who gives him a medallion inscribed with the letter "N." At the end of a novel by this author, a character inadvertently burns the protagonist's villa down after he falls asleep smoking in bed. Two of this author's characters 
One of this author's characters works 24-hour shifts as a harbor signalman and sleeps with a woman who gives him a medallion inscribed with the letter "N." At the end of a novel by this author, a character inadvertently burns the protagonist's villa down after he falls asleep smoking in bed. Two of this author's characters painstakingly search a grassy area for a lost emerald ring. While visiting the Ajanta Caves in India, a lawyer created by this author is reminded of his friend's promise to "see himÂ… beneath the (*) falls." In a series by this author, the Thai princess Ying Chan, the reactionary Isao Iinuma, and the orphan Toru Yasunaga all have the same pattern of three moles clustered together, leading Shigekuni Honda to suspect that his friend Kiyoaki is being reincarnated. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of the Sea of Fertility tetralogy.
One of this author's characters works 24-hour shifts as a harbor signalman and sleeps with a woman who gives him a medallion inscribed with the letter "N." At the end of a novel by this author, a character inadvertently burns the protagonist's villa down after he falls asleep smoking in bed.
Yukio Mishima 