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 1965-70 tetralogy — completed the day of his ritual suicide, the major late work covering 20th-century Japan through reincarnation
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | The Sea of Fertility (Late (the major late work, completed the day of his 1970 ritual suicide)) |
|---|---|
| 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 | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Both |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Cosmic-ordering |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Tradition |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| 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 cyclical-reincarnational time across four lives spanning 20th-century Japan.
Space
The Sea of Fertility
The Japanese national-cultural space across the century.
Matter
The Sea of Fertility
The embodied bodies across four reincarnations.
Observer
The Sea of Fertility
The protagonist across four lives; Honda as the singular continuing witness.
Energy
The Sea of Fertility
The energies of tradition, decay, ritual purpose, modernist dissolution.
Information
The Sea of Fertility
The 20th-century Japanese cultural-historical record.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Mishima's ritual suicide on the day of the tetralogy's completion inflects all subsequent readings.