The Decay of the Angel - Yukio Mishima

the Denmark-maru, and the Kōyō-maru.
At the Hinode Pier, the Kamishima-maru and the
Karakasu-maru.
At the Fujimi Pier, the Taiei-maru, the Hōwa-maru,
the Yamataka-maru, and the Aristonikos.
On buoys at Orito, a lumber port, the Santen-maru,
the Donna Rossana, and the Eastern Mary.
Because of the danger, a single tanker, the
Okitama-maru, was at a pipe in the Dolphin Area,
reserved for tankers. It was on the point of sailing.
Large tankers with crude oil from the Persian Gulf
anchored in the Dolphin Area, smaller tankers with
refined oil could come into the Sodeshi Dock, at
which there was a single ship, the Nisshō-maru.
A rail spur led from Shimizu Station past a number
of berths and lonely customs warehouses deflecting
the intense summer light, and deeper into the summer
grasses, where from between warehouses the light on
the sea told in derision of the end of land, and yet on
and on as if it were meant for casting old steam
engines into the sea. Then, suddenly, the crooked,
rusty track came out upon the shining sea, and at its
terminus was what is called the Railroad Dock. It was
host to no ships at all.
Tōru had just entered the Kōyō-maru on the
register for the Third Area.