Vol.16
Forest of Thought
Akira Mikami's Zo wa Hana ga Nagai and Kitaro Nishida's "Place"｜Japanization Is the Nullifying of the Subject
In 1960, in Zo wa Hana ga Nagai, Akira Mikami argued that Japanese has no need for the concept of the subject, and was ignored by academia. In his essay "Place," Kitaro Nishida set at the base that which becomes a predicate and never a subject. Nullifying the subject-like and creating from place is the true nature of "Japanization."
Kunitsukami Project
For the Inbe, Hemp and Kozo Were One and the Same Act｜The Nigite of the Kogo Shui and the Place Name Awa
Hemp and kozo are different things as plants. Yet in the Kogo Shui, the hemp of the blue nigite and the kozo of the white nigite are carried by the hands of one clan, the Inbe. Stripping, bleaching, beating, spinning. The materials did not differ; the concept of material did not exist. What existed was the very act of handling fiber.
KINEMA 2400
Why Did ATG End? With Full Financing, ATG Ceased to Be ATG
In 1974 the Art Theatre Shinjuku Bunka ended its role, and ATG went into retreat through the 1970s. In 1979 the new president, Shiro Sasaki, declared that if there was no money, ATG would pay the whole amount. The moment it became the one paying everything, ATG became merely a production company. What it left behind was a way of being.