"As the author of the text and the subject of the photographs, Mishima almost tenderly exploits his most intimate obsessions: his erotic desires, his creativity, his body, his premeditated death. Hosoe's work mirrors Mishima's complexity and contradictions in photographs whose images melt into superimposed layers of symbol and meaning."--Booklist
". . . an opulently printed, large-format book . . . Hosoe explores light and shadow, and collages images from Renaissance paintings and other sources, resulting in photographs that possess a piercing beauty, photographs where there are no lies and no deceptions."--"25 Best Books of 2002," THE magazine, December 2002/January 2003

《沉潜的瀑布》中的城所升年轻英俊且事业有成，但却是个无感情的人。有一天遇到有夫之妇显子，她从不对男人动情。升兴奋地发现这是一个和自己相同的女人，他试图与显子构建起完全脱离情感的“人工的爱”。可是显子却真的对升动了情，城所升发现后大失所望，明白过来后的显子彻底绝望，投身小瀑布自尽了。
《幸福号出航》从一对异母兄妹敏夫和三津子的种种逆反的行为构筑他们不知命运如何的爱恋，为了“哪怕逃到地狱也不分离”，乘上“幸福号”帆船，离开了日本。