Vol.3
Forest of Thought
Alexander Dugin's Multipolarism｜From Traditionalism to the Fourth Political Theory
Today's multipolarism is underpinned by the thought of Alexander Dugin. Baptized into Traditionalism in an underground salon, he proposed multipolarism as a "Fourth Political Theory" to replace liberalism, communism, and fascism. Everyone now faces the moment to reexamine "modernity" and "the West."
Kunitsukami Project
The Aratae of the Daijosai｜Awa Inbe Cloth Traced to the Kogo Shui and Revived in the Taisho Era
The Aratae worn in the supreme rite of the Daijosai was, according to the Kogo Shui, a cloth of kozo and hemp woven by the descendants of Ame no Hiwashi, ancestral god of the Awa Inbe. The Daijosai was broken off after 1466. The custom of the Awa Inbe descendants presenting the Aratae was revived at the accession of the Taisho Emperor.
KINEMA 2400
The Golden Age of 1950s Japanese Cinema｜An Explosion of Expression Born of a Gap in Censorship
The military in the 1930s, the GHQ in the 1940s. After these dark ages of censorship, the Korean War rendered GHQ censorship effectively void, and the film industry grew explosively. The golden age of the 1950s was an explosion of expression brought about by a miraculous "vacuum of power."