"Akatsuki Temple" Author: [Japan] Mishima Yukio Publisher: Times Literature and Art Publishing House

Among the four parts of the Sea of ​​Fertility, Temple of Akatsuki is a novel that is not like a novel. It takes Honda, an observer of reincarnation, as the protagonist, traveling around East Asia, integrating beautiful tropical scenery, religious customs, and profound religious concepts, and story-tellingly explaining the core element of life and beauty that all nations are concerned about: sex. The novel has a simple plot, but contains a huge amount of information, making it a unique masterpiece of knowledge-based novels.

In the four-part series of The Sea of ​​Fertility, the third part, Akatsuki Temple, plays the role of "turn" in the "introduction, development, turn and conclusion". From then on, Mishima turned to the exploration of the ultimate meaning of life, such as reincarnation, consciousness-only theory, beauty and death.