TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mishima, Yukio
AU  - 
AU  - Seidensticker, Edward,
TI  - The Decay of the angel
T2  - The Sea of fertility ; [4]
SN  - 9780679722434
AV  - M6872 1990 
PY  - 1990///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage International
KW  - Adoption
KW  - Japan
KW  - FICTION
KW  - Fiction. Japan
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 1945
KW  - Fiction
N2  - "Yukio Mishima`s The Decay of the Angel is the final novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. It is the last installment of Shigekuni Honda`s pursuit of the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend Kiyoaki Matsugae. It is the late 1960s and Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, once more encounters a person he believes to be a reincarnation of his friend, Kiyoaki -- this time restored to life as a teenage orphan, Toru. Adopting the boy as his heir, Honda quickly finds that Toru is a force to be reckoned with. The final novel of this celebrated tetralogy weaves together the dominant themes of the previous three novels in the series: the decay of Japan`s courtly tradition; the essence and value of Buddhist philosophy and aesthetics; and, underlying all, Mishima`s apocalyptic vision of the modern era."--Publisher`s description
ER  -