Vol.18
Forest of Thought
The Tenpo Calendar, the Most Precise Lunisolar Calendar, and the Meiji Government's Turn to the Gregorian Calendar to Save Money
The Tenpo calendar is Japan's own calendar, the most precise lunisolar calendar in history. The Meiji government adopted the Gregorian calendar to avoid paying officials thirteen times in the following year, Meiji 6, because of a leap month. It was not adopted because the Gregorian calendar is superior.
Kunitsukami Project
The Kojiki Compilers' Struggle Between Sound and Script Returns in the Reading of Genes｜COMT
Genes are a chronicle older than the Kojiki, with no compiler. Take the meaning and the sound vanishes; take the sound and the meaning vanishes. This dilemma that the compilers of the Kojiki ran into recurs in the form of translating and compiling genes. First, from a single gene called COMT.
KINEMA 2400
The Independent Productions Fought Not for the Freedom to Make Films but for the Freedom to Have Them Shown
In 1950, film people driven from the studios by the Red Purge founded Shinsei Eigasha, and Kaneto Shindo and Kozaburo Yoshimura, who left Shochiku, formed Kindai Eiga Kyokai. But cinemas across the country had been absorbed into the chains of the majors. It was a battle over not the freedom to make but the freedom to be shown.