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After The Banquet....hahaha! I was reading this one just after the election which was appropriate seeing as it all about politics, and about marriage. Mishima is good at describing the hell that is marriage. He knows exactly how it all works. He understands women extremely well and his women characters are always surprising, usually very powerful and always palpably real. The heroine of this tale Kazu is a formidable self made woman and a great natural politician.
"Some curious blessing of heaven had joined in one body a mans resolution with a womans reckless enthusiasm."
She falls in love with a dry old aristocratic politician, but ends up unintentionally eclipsing him. It's all about class and temperament and vitality. She is too much woman for him basically.