Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
The Sea of Fertility
Mishima's final tetralogy — completed the day of his 1970 ritual suicide, tracing reincarnation across twentieth-century Japan
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | The Sea of Fertility (Last) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Cyclical |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Partial |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Both |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Cosmic-ordering |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Experience |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Variable |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
The Sea of Fertility
The 1912-75 span of twentieth-century Japan; the longer cyclical-reincarnational time across the four lives.
Space
The Sea of Fertility
Twentieth-century Japan in its successive cultural moments.
Matter
The Sea of Fertility
The four embodied lives; the same karmic seed differently incarnated.
Observer
The Sea of Fertility
Honda as continuous witness across the four lives.
Energy
The Sea of Fertility
The karmic-aesthetic energies that organise the tetralogy.
Information
The Sea of Fertility
The reincarnational pattern; the cultural-historical content of each volume.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Mishima's political-cultural positions — ultranationalism, ritual suicide — make the tetralogy difficult to read separately from his death. The reception has been variously divided.