Vol.25
Forest of Thought
All Glory Is Fleeting｜AI Introspection and the Mother-to-Child Transfer of Gut Microbiota
Nothing born of human beings is absolute or permanent. All is only a moment of glory. Cutting-edge AI born from a matrix of modern knowledge will in turn become the mother, and what is born from it will be spun on from generation to generation, like the transmission of gut microbiota from mother to child.
Kunitsukami Project
The Inishi of the Doigahama Yayoi｜The Path of the Ancestors and the Trade Networks of the Sea
The Yayoi of Doigahama laid their remains facing "the path their ancestors came by." Iha Fuyu said that the Ryukyuan word "inishi" means "the way the ancestors came." The direction the Doigahama Yayoi faced after burial was not simply "west (northwest)" but their "inishi."
KINEMA 2400
Masaki Kobayashi's Harakiri｜Movement Within Stillness, and Time
Harakiri, directed by Masaki Kobayashi in 1962, delivered one great shock to films about samurai. Most of it plays in the garden of the Ii house, where Tatsuya Nakadai sits composed and keeps speaking. The phrase "motion within stillness" fits no film so well.