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An Artist of the Floating World & The Remains of the Day
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Masuji Ono was a painter in Japan who, during the years of war, turned his talent toward the nationalist cause, believing that art should serve his country's march toward empire. Now, after the defeat, he lives with the shame of that choice. Society judges him harshly, and the admiration once given to his work has turned to contempt. Yet his memories of youth and of the fleeting pleasures of the pleasure quarters, with their music, lanterns and drink, give him both a refuge and a way to face what he did.
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As Ono looks back over his life, he revisits the moments that made him seem at once brave and cowardly. The story is less a verdict than an attempt to see himself plainly as a person who made mistakes.
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