Spring Snow Author:Yukio Mishima On the day of his death Yukio Mishima delivered to his publishers the final pages of the four book roman fleuve that is his ultimate work- a series of connected novels summing up his vision of the Japanese experience in the 20th century. Spring Snow is the first book of Mishima's tetralogy. It is set in Tokyo in 1912 in the closed circles of the... more » Imperial Court and the arcient aristocracy, a hermetic world beginning to be breached by newcomers-the rich provincial families whose money and vitality , unhindered by burdens of tradition, make them formidable contenders for the prize of social and political power« less