Vol.20
Forest of Thought
An Age Steered by Observation, Not Forecast｜Ippen in the Latter Days of the Law and the Bank of Japan at a Crossroads
On a journey where phenomena like linear rainbands, unpredictable in time and place, kept coming, what mattered to watch became not the forecast but the observation. Forecasts and predictions have lost their meaning for public finance and currency alike. Can the Bank of Japan maintain its independence? Ippen, who lived in the Latter Days of the Law, crosses my mind.
Kunitsukami Project
Divine Names Shift Along the Kuroshio｜Yakurahime and Toyotamahime of Awa
In the mountains bordering the sea in Tokushima City, Toyotamahime is enshrined together with Yakurahime, a deity peculiar to Awa who appears in neither the Kojiki nor the Nihon Shoki. Along the Kuroshio, divine names shift. When the place changes, the name changes, and at that moment the act shifts.
KINEMA 2400
Kosaku Yamashita's The Great Casino (1968) Portrays the Japanese Heart in Full
The "heart of the past," which survived until only about half a century ago, is stamped on The Great Casino of 1968. Kosaku Yamashita directed and Koji Tsuruta starred. The Japanized Five Constants and Seven Emotions are all in this one film. It goes deeper than reading hundreds of books on the Japanese heart.