Vocab Floating World p165-181

1. Complacency (p165)
The painting which had so upset the Tortoise was one entitled 'Complacency', and although it did not remain in my possession for long, such was my investment in it at that time that its details have stayed imprinted on my memory.
 - In this situation, this word is name of the painting. It means self-satisfaction when accompanied by unawareneess of danger or deficiency.

2. Shanty (p166)
Matsuda did not reply, but continued to look down at that shanty community with a strange smile on his face.
 - While Matsuda talked with Ono, he looked the town wich looked like very poor and needy one.

3. Squalor / Squalid (p168)
I gave those boys little further thought at the time. Then some days later, that image of the three of them, turning towards us with scowls on their faces, brandishing their sticks, standing there amidst all that squalor, returned to me with some vividness, and I used it as the central image of 'Complacency'.
 - It describe the painting of 'Compalcency', he expressed childrend's dirty and unsanitary condition.

4. Scowl (p168)
For although they still stood in front of a squalid shanty hut, and their clothes were the same rags the original boys were, the scowls on their faces would not have been guilty, defensive scowls of little criminals caught in the act; rather, they would have worn the manly scowls of samuri warriors ready to fight.
 - It still described the painting, in the painting, boys wrinkled up their face to express some anger and aggression.

5. naive (p171)
You're quite wrong to assume me so naive. I wasn't for a moment suggesting the exhibition be confined simply to Mori-san's group.
 - When Ono and Matsuda was talking about poverty of Japanese society, Matsuda was sarcastic about Ono's opinion.

6. pavilion (p175)
In those days there stood up on Takami Gardens a most pleasing pavilion, just on the rim of the hill overlooking the area - not far, in fact, from where the peace memorial stands today.
- He recall some memory of a place about when Ono was in Mori sang's pupil.