Yukio Mishima is the most famous and widely read Japanese writer in the world. He became famous equally for his works in all imaginable genres (novels, plays, stories, essays) and for his extravagant style of life and death (harakiri after an unsuccessful attempt at a monarchical coup). The tetralogy “Sea of Plenty” is the pinnacle of Mishima’s writing and a kind of creative testament; this is the work in which Mishima, in his words, “expressed all his ideas” and after which he had “nothing left to write about.” Having completed the last novel of the tetralogy, he put an end to his life. “Sea of Plenty” contains the quintessence of Mishima’s own aesthetic system, combining samurai-Shinto elements with images of European antiquity, the influence of esoteric Buddhism and even Hinduism. The cornerstone of this aesthetic has always been the theme of death and beauty; Mishima's heroes try to comprehend the terrible and indefinable mystery of beauty, which exists outside of morality and ethics, capable of enslaving and destroying the human personality. The plot of “Sea of Plenty” is based on the idea of reincarnation, which is consistently revealed through the story of tragic love, idealistic self-sacrifice, mystical obsession, the collapse of illusions...