Vol.1
Forest of Thought
What Is Thought? The Power to Shift the Very Ground from Which Thinking Arises
Thought is the power to shift the very ground from which thinking arises. What most people call "my own thinking" always stands on something else: the world, the state, society, or some "someone." The aim is not to offer a way out to modern people confined within modern thought, but to displace the ground where thinking is born.
Kunitsukami Project
The Limits of Views of Japan That Lack the Sea｜The Five Spheres of Jomon Pottery and the Origins of the Visiting Gods
Nearly every account of Japan and the Japanese has been built, without exception, from a view of the land. The styles of Jomon pottery reveal five spheres that changed over time. Contact between different peoples across the sea may have formed the prototype of the visiting gods who come from the sea.
KINEMA 2400
Japanese Cinema as the Manyoshu in Moving Images｜Following the Kokugaku Scholars in Search of "the Japanese Heart"
The Kokugaku scholars of the Edo period felt uneasy about the worship of foreign things and found "the Japanese heart" in the Manyoshu and the Kojiki. About 160 years after the Meiji Restoration, with Europe and America still the model, that heart is sought in Japanese cinema. For the Japanese, film may have been the Manyoshu in moving images.