Yukio Mishima is the world's most famous and widely read Japanese writer. He was equally famous for his works in all conceivable genres (romances, plays, stories, essays), and extravagant lifestyle and death (harakiri after a failed attempt at a monarchical coup). The Tetralogy of the Sea of Abundance is the pinnacle of Mishima's writing and a kind of creative testament; it is a work in which Mishima, he says, "expressed all his ideas" and after which he "had nothing to write about".. After completing the last novel of tetralogy, he put an end to his life. The Sea of Abundance contains the quintessence of Mishima’s own aesthetic system, combining samurai-synthic 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; the heroes of Mishima try to understand 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 Abundance" is based on the idea of reincarnation, consistently revealed through the story of tragic love, idealistic self-sacrifice, mystical obsession, the collapse of illusions...