10 Quickfire Questions and Answers on An Artist of the Floating World Episode 1
10 Quickfire Questions and Answers on An Artist of the Floating World Episode 1
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10 Quickfire Questions and Answers on An Artist of the Floating World Episode 1
1. Why did Ono need a new house? Ono needed a new house to keep up with his family status and to improve the marriage prospects of his daughters. It is for this reason that his wife Michiko had begun to pressure him to find a new house. 2. Who sold Ono the new house and why? Akira Sugimura's daughters sold their late father's houseto Ono. A significant section of Sugimura's family was against selling the house but the sale was inevitable due to financial pressures. 3. Why did Ono pay so little for Akira Sugimura's house? Ono only paid a nominal sum for the house - a figure probably not even half the property's true value at the time because Akira Sugimura's daughters only wanted to sell the house on grounds purely of good character and achievement. They wanted whoever bought the house to be someone that their father would haveapproved of and deemed worthy of the house. This made them to relegate the financial aspect of the sale as secondary and they fixed a very low…
