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A potential husband for Noriko, who pulled out of marriage negotiations a year before the beginning of the novel’s action. Ono dwells on his memory of an interaction he and Jiro had while waiting for the tram one day, in which Jiro said something to Ono that makes Ono think that his past is to blame for the failure of Noriko’s marriage negotiations.
Jiro Miyake Quotes in An Artist of the Floating World
The An Artist of the Floating World quotes below are all either spoken by Jiro Miyake or refer to Jiro Miyake. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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October 1948
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But as I say, there is a different mood in the country these days, and Suichi's attitudes are probably by no means exceptional. Perhaps I am being unfair if I credit young Miyake, too, with such bitterness, but then the way things are at present, if you examine anything anyone says to you, it seems you will find a thread of this same bitter feeling running through it. For all I know, Miyake did speak those words; perhaps all men of Miyake's and Suichi's generation have come to think and speak like that.
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Jiro Miyake Quotes in An Artist of the Floating World
The An Artist of the Floating World quotes below are all either spoken by Jiro Miyake or refer to Jiro Miyake. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
October 1948
Quotes
But as I say, there is a different mood in the country these days, and Suichi's attitudes are probably by no means exceptional. Perhaps I am being unfair if I credit young Miyake, too, with such bitterness, but then the way things are at present, if you examine anything anyone says to you, it seems you will find a thread of this same bitter feeling running through it. For all I know, Miyake did speak those words; perhaps all men of Miyake's and Suichi's generation have come to think and speak like that.
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