In the Art of the Floating World, Masuji Ono, the protagonist, experiences a loss of many things, but his memory always remains- he still almost lives through them. After the war, Masuji had changed. The memories he has may not have died, but the man he was in them had. On page 114, his daughter ... [Read more...]
Masuji Ono has a lot of trouble reconciling himself with his memories of the war. While talking to Jiro Miyake during marriage negotiations, he is shocked by the severity of Miyake's attitudes toward those in charge. "The world seems to have gone mad. Every day there seems to be a report of someone else ... [Read more...]
Everyone experiences major events in such extreme differences, leading to major difference in the way people choose to remember those events. We can look at things like 9/11 or even something more recent such as the bombings in Paris, initial reactions are usually very similar across the board,overwhelming shock and disbelief. Then time progresses, and ... [Read more...]
In Kazuo Ishiguro's novel, An Artist of the Floating World, his main character, Masuji Ono, had lived through the tragedies suffered by the Japanese people during World War II. For Masuji, living in a post-tragedy world means being haunted by memories, both good and bad, almost constantly. One of the most common memories Masiju has is his time ... [Read more...]
The main character of Ishiguro's Artist of the Floating World is categorized by this lost emptiness in post-WWII Japan. Masuji Ono, once a famous painter and supporter of the nationalism of the war effort, now has a filtered memory of his past. What I found most interesting was not his paintings or career as an artist ... [Read more...]
In Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, An Artist of the Floating World, artist Masuji Ono narrates the story, reminiscing on the world he used to know before the war. Mr. Ono recalls his past as an artist, even though I believe a person never truly stops being an artist. Although he may have stopped creating art with ... [Read more...]
Masuji Ono spends a lot of time reminiscing about his days as an artist. I sense that he is feeling melancholy as he remembers the better days of his past when he was an artist under Master Takeda and with his colleagues. The following quote is of Masuji Ono remembering exploring with his colleagues to ... [Read more...]
Misuji Ono is an aging man, and as he tells this story and reflects back on before the war and his actions during the war, and some things he has forgotten, or tried to forget. Because of this, his memory is sometimes foggy. "Of course, this is all a matter of many years ago now ... [Read more...]
Caption: Military Vietnam Memorial Wall Honoring Veterans People remember the good and bad experiences in life through many forms of medium. The usage of pictures, paintings, lyrics, films, literature, as well as street art are ways in showing important events in human lives. The use of many forms of mediums are outlets in which people not ... [Read more...]
Artist of the Floating World is Masuji Ono’s personal musing and identity raveled into a flexible, meditative story; he writes and wanders through his career as an artist, his love for and loss of family, and aftershocks of war in ‘floating’ narrative. As an old man, Ono is a retired artist with a deteriorating memory, ... [Read more...]
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