Description

The first book of Mishima's milestone tetralogy, The Ocean of fertilitySpring Snowfall is placed in Tokyo in 1912, once the hermetic world of the old aristocracy will be breached for the first time by outsiders -- wealthy provincial households unburdened by custom, whose cash and vigor cause them to become solid challengers for cultural and governmental power.Among this increasing new elite would be the bold Matsugae, whose child hasbeen raised in a household of the declining aristocracy, the stylish and attenuated Ayakura. Coming-Of-Age, he's swept up in the tensions between new and old -- very hating and loving the beautiful, lively Ayakura Satoko. He endures in paralysis before surprise of her wedding to a regal king reveals him the degree of his enthusiasm, and results in a romance that's as bound because it was unavoidable.