How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
He was the oldest son in a family that had for centuries been of the samurai class. He used to brag that they owned more land than you could cross on horseback in a single day. By the time he was born, in 1887, they weren't warriors any longer. Japan was in the throes of that rapid, confusing metamorphosis from a feudal to an industrial nation, which began when Commodore Perry's black-hulled armada steamed into Tokyo Bay and forced the Japanese to open their ports and cities to western trade. (1.6.2)
Maybe things were already getting away from Papa before he was even born. Doesn't he seem like a man born into the wrong era? If he were a samurai warrior, maybe he wouldn't skip from job to job…
Quote #5
This was like bloodying the nose of God. His face, contorted, looked ready to cry, but even his tears were stopped by the knowledge of what he had done. He waited paralyzed for whatever punishment might strike him down. Papa couldn't move either. He stared at Kiyo, his eyes wide with both outrage and admiration that his son had the courage to do this. They stood like that until Papa's gaze went bleary from the drink in his veins and dropped to the damp shirt, to the blood still spattering onto Mama's dress. (1.8.21)
Kiyo has just hit Papa in order to protect Mama, which foreshadows what will happen later in the book… not that one of his sons will hit Papa again, but that Papa's on the downward spiral whereas his sons—young, American citizens—are not (especially in Woody's case).
Quote #6
Woody wanted to go with him, but Papa said it was a meeting for "heads of households" only and he insisted on going alone. From the time he heard about it he purposely drank nothing stronger than tea. He shaved and trimmed his mustache and put on a silk tie. His limp was nearly gone now, but he carried his cane and went staggering off down the narrow walkway between the barracks, punching at the packed earth in front of him. (1.11.25)
This is one of those brief moments when a glimmer of the old Papa reappears—purposeful, decisive, strong, and sober. He's about to go defend his Yeses on the Loyalty Oath even though there's a good chance that people will call him a collaborator and traitor (inu) because this is what a patriarch, in Papa's head, is supposed to do.