The fact that he helped the Imperial Japanese war effort by practicing this profession haunts Masuji Ono in a novel shortlisted for the 1986 Booker.
This is the main profession of a character who professes to read novels in a "non-emotional" manner by picking passages at random. A different character radically alters how he practices this profession after stumbling upon the sight of three scowling boys brandishing sticks while on a walk through a slum with his teacher Matsuda. The narrator encourages the innkeeper's daughter O-Nami Shioda to develop compassion so that he can practice this profession properly, in Natsume Soseki's The (*) Three-Cornered World. The fact that he helped the Imperial Japanese war effort by practicing this profession haunts Masuji Ono in a novel shortlisted for the 1986 Booker. For 10 points, name this profession in which the protagonist of a Kazuo Ishiguro novel attempts to capture the Floating World.
This is the main profession of a character who professes to read novels in a "non-emotional" manner by picking passages at random.
artist [or painter]