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This paper aims to analyze An Artist of the Floating World from the perspective of repentance and forgiveness. Proper repentance should be comprised of the truthful and well-contextualized narrative of the past. Ono’s narrative of his past as an artist supporting Japanese militarism reveals the narrator’s strong intention to justify his wrong doings. This paper will argue that his repentance cannot be a proper one because of the narrator’s selfish purpose to justify his past. Also, the novel’s intentional exclusion of historical context can make the readers with the background of victimization by Japanese militarism feel offended.
