I've not read that book, but I was thinking of the Ukiyo-e art of Japan.
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The contemporary novelist Asai Ryōi, in his Ukiyo monogatari (浮世物語, "Tales of the Floating World", c. 1661?), provides some insight into the concept of the floating world:
... Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maple leaves; singing songs, drinking wine, diverting ourselves in just floating, floating; ... refusing to be disheartened, like a gourd floating along with the river current: this is what we call the floating world...
Am I right to read "the floating world" as a reference to Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Artist of the Floating World"?
ReplyDeleteI've not read that book, but I was thinking of the Ukiyo-e art of Japan.
ReplyDeleteFrom Wiki, illustrated, so to speak, by this sentiment:
The contemporary novelist Asai Ryōi, in his Ukiyo monogatari (浮世物語, "Tales of the Floating World", c. 1661?), provides some insight into the concept of the floating world:
... Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maple leaves; singing songs, drinking wine, diverting ourselves in just floating, floating; ... refusing to be disheartened, like a gourd floating along with the river current: this is what we call the floating world...
Now that you mention it, I think Ishiguro refers to the same art, at least in passing!
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