All of those works were completed prior to this author's televised suicide by seppuku (SEH-puh-koo).
This man described the homosexuality of Kochan in his work Confessions of a Mask. He wrote another work in which Isao (EYE-sow), Ying Chan, and Toru are all successive incarnations of Kiyaoki, who appears in Spring Snow. That work by this author centers on the lawyer Shigekuni Honda. This author ended a novel with Mizoguchi's arson of the titular (*) Temple of the Golden Pavilion. All of those works were completed prior to this author's televised suicide by seppuku (SEH-puh-koo). For 10 points, name this Japanese author who wrote the Sea of Fertility tetralogy.
This man described the homosexuality of Kochan in his work Confessions of a Mask.
Yukio {Mishima} [or {Mishima Yukio}; do not accept or prompt on "{Yukio}" by {itself}; or {Kimitake}