![]() ![]() A pupil of Ono's raised the possibility of him purchasing Sugimura's house after Sugimura's death. This show of status mattered because of the impending marriage negotiations for Ono's older daughter Setsuko, who was approaching an appropriate age for marriage. He recalls that his wife pressured him to buy the family a new home in order to display the family's status. The narrator then launches into his own memories of that unusual sale fifteen years ago. ![]() This man's name was Akira Sugimura, and his family sold the house to Ono for a value far below the house's real worth. Rather, the man who owned the house before him and who built it was well-regarded in their city. Contrary to what we might believe based on the house's grandeur, Ono reports, he isn't wealthy. ![]() Though he doesn't identify himself, we find out later that the narrator is a man named Masuji Ono. Our first-person narrator begins the story by giving us directions to his home, using a second-person address to explain how the reader might stumble upon his grand and well-positioned home. ![]()
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