Vol.15
Forest of Thought
Razan Hayashi's Zhu Xi Learning and the Kogaku Reaction｜Every Rise of Culture Begins with a Rise of Thought
In 1605, Razan Hayashi, twenty-three by East Asian reckoning, had an audience with Tokugawa Ieyasu and was picked as a main pillar of the philosophy of the new regime. But shogunate and domains alike allowed academic freedom, and in that margin the Kogaku school rose and Genroku culture bloomed. Behind every cultural flowering there is always a flowering of thought.
Kunitsukami Project
Okuninushi Has No True Name｜Susanoo in the Izumo Fudoki and the Divine Names of Places
Okuninushi, the chief deity of the great shrine at Izumo, has no true name. The name Okuninushi never appears in the Izumo Fudoki. Names existed in countless numbers from the start, and the footprints of how the deity Okuninushi was generated lie in the process of their being bundled into one deity.
KINEMA 2400
ATG's Ten-Million-Yen Films｜Half the Money, and Three Clauses That Promised Never to Interfere
In 1967, from Shohei Imamura's A Man Vanishes, came the "ten-million-yen film," in which ATG put up five million yen and Imamura Productions put up five million. What was decisive among the three clauses was the second, that ATG would not interfere in production at all. In exchange for little money came complete freedom.