Artist Of The Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro Christmas gifts Professor Gibson also tells the

Professor Gibson also tells the stories of the ‘witches’ – mostly women like Helena Scheuberin

not least the brave and innocent twelve-year-old Nettie Beecroft

There's a stunning lack of reliable indoor plumbing

And now the time has come for them to pay for what they've done

Artist Of The Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro Christmas gifts Professor Gibson also tells the1948: Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern lit bars. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to the past to a life and a career deeply touched by