4: 'The Patriotic Spirit.'
Ono reflects on the rise in Japanese militarism during the war, and its impact on his art. Tim McInnerny continues this 1986 classic novel from the Nobel winner, Kazuo Ishiguro.
Tim McInnerny reads Nobel Prize-winner Kazuo Ishiguro's classic 1986 novel, set in post-WWII Japan.
It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding after the horrors of the war, its people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated artist Masuji Ono fills his days in his garden with his two grown daughters and grandson, and his evenings drinking with old associates in the quiet lantern-lit bars of the old pleasure district. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to the past, a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.
Today: Ono reflects on the rise in Japanese militarism during the war, and its transformative impact on his art...
Writer: Kazuo Ishiguro
Reader: Tim McInnerny
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Justine Willett
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- Thu 7 Aug 2025 22:45蜜芽传媒 Radio 4