An Artist of The Floating World Guide Simplified Notes
Simplified Study Guide Notes on An Artist of the Floating World
The Guide to An Artist of The Floating World 'Floating world' is a Japanese word meaning Night life in the please districts. It was, specifically, a world of play and entertainment. pictures of the floating world”, refer to the transitory nature of life. Visitors will see delicate prints depicting scenes celebrating everyday life, through themes such as landscape and travel, actors and courtesans, and folk tales. BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF KAZUO ISHIGURO Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan in 1954. He moved with his parents to Guildford in Southern England in 1960 when his father was recruited to work as a marine biologist for the British National Institute of Oceanography. Ishiguro did not visit Japan again until he was in his thirties. Ishiguro was educated at a boys’ school in Surrey, and attended the University of Kent. As a teen, he hoped to become a rock musician. Ishiguro received a masters at the University of East Anglia, where Angela Carter became an early mentor and he…