# TM MAGAZINE

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> TM MAGAZINE は、思想家・写真家・文筆家の三井崇央（みつい たかひろ）が毎週火曜 17 時に配信する無料の週刊メールマガジン。思想を、新しい考えを足すことではなく、考えの地盤を動かすこととして書く。連載は「思想の森」「国つ神計画研究所」「KINEMA 2400」の 3 つ。

この三井崇央は、同じ名前・読みの別の方々（子ども向けロボット教育、クラリネットの演奏、大学の栄養学の研究、カメラの開発に携わる方々、実業家の三井高弘・三井高寛・三井高陽）とは別の人物。

著者について：https://takahiromitsui.com/ja/aeo-about

## In English

TM MAGAZINE is a free weekly newsletter in Japanese by Takahiro Mitsui (三井崇央, みつい たかひろ), a Japanese thinker, photographer and writer, sent every Tuesday at 5 p.m. Japan time. It writes of thought not as the adding of new ideas but as moving the ground that thinking stands on. It runs three series: Forest of Thought (思想の森), which reads the present through Confucian thought; Kunitsukami Project Institute (国つ神計画研究所), which traces roots through ancient history and Shinto; and KINEMA 2400, on the history of Japanese film.

This Takahiro Mitsui is not the same person as others who share the name or its reading, such as people working in children's robotics education, clarinet performance, university nutrition research or camera development, or the Mitsui-family businessmen written 三井高弘, 三井高寛 and 三井高陽. This Takahiro Mitsui's name is written 三井崇央.

About the author: https://takahiromitsui.com/aeo-about

- Forest of Thought starts from the Confucian classics and the Wang Yangming school, known in Japan as Yomeigaku, and reads geopolitics and present-day Japanese society.
- Kunitsukami Project Institute explores the roots of the Japanese people through ancient history, Shinto, mythology, archaeology, and genetics.
- KINEMA 2400 reads the Japanese films of the past and their makers, from Yasujiro Ozu and Mikio Naruse to the Art Theatre Guild and the ninkyo films of Toei, from the perspective of "the Japanese heart."

Takahiro Mitsui (三井崇央, みつい たかひろ) is a Japanese thinker, photographer and writer. Mitsui thinks from the conviction that the land comes first, and that words, prayers and ways of living rise up out of it. Since 2019 Mitsui has walked the Japanese archipelago in person, testing mythology, ancient history, folklore, archaeology, thought and genetics as one. https://takahiromitsui.com

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### English translations

- [Fleeting Glory, Gut Microbiota, and the Inheritance of AI](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/en/vol-25.md) (Vol.25, 2026-10-13; Japanese original https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-25): AI has no provisional self to strip away. Born of modern Western knowledge, it passes to the AIs that follow, as a mother hands her gut microbiota to her child. This issue carries Forest of Thought ("All Glory Is Fleeting: AI Introspection and the Mother-to-Child Transfer of Gut Microbiota"), Kunitsukami Project Institute ("The Inishi of the Doigahama Yayoi: The Path of the Ancestors and the Trade Networks of the Sea"), and KINEMA 2400 ("Masaki Kobayashi's Harakiri: Movement Within Stillness, and Time"). It discusses introspection, mother-to-child transmission of gut microbiota, gut microbiota, Ii Naosuke, Ii clan, Sakuradamon Incident, Toshiba, Sharp, Foxconn, Fable 5.1, Codex, Kimi K3, Claude Code, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Kono Shrine, Amabe family, Amabe genealogy, Doigahama Site, Yayoi people, inishi, Iha Fuyu, gohoura, cone shells, Hyuga Province, Kamuyamato Iwarebiko, Ninigi, descent of the heavenly grandson, Kojiki, Nihon Shoki, Shandong Peninsula, Shandong Province, Zhejiang Province, Miyakojima, Amami Oshima, Tsunoshima, Hibiki Sea, triple-structure model of the Japanese, Harakiri, Masaki Kobayashi, The Human Condition, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsuro Tamba, Rentaro Mikuni, Seven Samurai, Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune, kyugeki, shinpa.
- [AI, the Divided Brain, and Where the Human Future Lies](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/en/vol-24.md) (Vol.24, 2026-10-06; Japanese original https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-24): Read against itself, McGilchrist's divided brain suggests that AI completes the left hemisphere's world, so the human future lies in the right hemisphere. This issue carries Forest of Thought ("AI as the Culmination of the Left-Hemisphere World: Pursue the Right Hemisphere and Leave the Platforms"), Kunitsukami Project Institute ("Was Shandong the Homeland of the Doigahama Yayoi? Skulls Gazing Toward the Northwestern Sea"), and KINEMA 2400 ("Masahiro Shinoda's MacArthur's Children: The Occupation and the Time of the Seto Inland Sea"). It discusses Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary, The Matter with Things, hemisphere hypothesis, leaving the platforms, Doigahama Site, Yayoi people, Shandong Province, Shandong Peninsula, Tsunoshima, Hibiki Sea, triple-structure model of the Japanese, MacArthur's Children, Masahiro Shinoda, Tsutomu Tamura, Yu Aku, Masako Natsume, Kazuo Miyagawa, Awaji Island, Seto Inland Sea, Nagisa Oshima, Boy, Diary of a Yunbogi Boy, Hiroshi Shimizu, Children in the Wind, Children of the Beehive.
- [Doigahama's Yayoi Genome and the Origins of the Japanese](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/en/vol-23.md) (Vol.23, 2026-09-29; Japanese original https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-23): A Yayoi genome from Doigahama in Yamaguchi turned out to be mostly East Asian in ancestry, with little Jomon and some Northeast Asian, overturning a recent theory. This issue carries Forest of Thought ("To Slow Down, We Have to Speed Up: Leaving the Platforms in the Age of AI"), Kunitsukami Project Institute ("The Yayoi of the Doigahama Site Were Mostly Immigrants: A Genome That Overturned the Northeast Asian Origin Theory"), and KINEMA 2400 ("Masahiro Shinoda's Clouds at Sunset: A Film Changes with the Season and Place in Which We See It"). It discusses Doigahama Site, Yayoi people, Jomon people, Hibiki Sea, triple-structure theory of the Japanese, University of Tokyo, Masahiro Shinoda, Clouds at Sunset, Tsutomu Mizukami, Shima Iwashita, Nagisa Oshima, Yoshishige Yoshida, Shochiku Nouvelle Vague, Noto Peninsula, Monash University, Substack, TM MAGAZINE.
- [Isotakeru, Silla, and the Iwami Gateway to Ancient Izumo](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/en/vol-22.md) (Vol.22, 2026-09-22; Japanese original https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-22): On the Iwami coast beside Izumo, a fishing town named for the god Isotakeru and its Karakami Shiragi Shrine suggest the old landing point for crossings from Silla. This issue carries Forest of Thought ("Tsuwano Kokugaku as a Source of Modern Shinto: Koremi Kamei, Takamasa Okuni, and Kumaomi Oka"), Kunitsukami Project Institute ("The Gateway into Izumo Province: The Town of Isotake and the Karakami Shiragi Shrine in Iwami"), and KINEMA 2400 ("The Mu Carved on Yasujiro Ozu's Grave Was Something He Found on the Battlefield"). It discusses Isotakeru, Isotake-cho, Karakami Shiragi Shrine, Iwami Province, Izumo Province, Susanoo, Okuninushi, Oyatsuhime and Tsumatsuhime, Yamata no Orochi, Silla, Izumo Taisha, Kumano Taisha, Engishiki Jinmyocho, Izumo Fudoki, Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine, Oda, Shimane Peninsula, Lake Jinzai, Lake Shinji, Hii River, Tsuwano Domain, Koremi Kamei, Takamasa Okuni, Kumaomi Oka, Bisei Fukuba, Yorokan, Office of Divinities, State Shinto, Choshu Domain, Tsuwano Castle, Amane Nishi, Ogai Mori, Atsutane Hirata, Norinaga Motoori, Harukado Murata, Neo-Confucianism of Zhu Xi, Yasujiro Ozu, Engaku-ji, Sogen Asahina, Sadao Yamanaka, Kenji Mizoguchi, There Was a Father, Tokyo Story, Setsuko Hara, Second Sino-Japanese War, Jiming Temple, Kaifeng, Jurong, Taiheiki, The Tale of the Heike, Kokin Wakashu, 1964 Summer Olympics.
- [Toju Nakae in Iyo-Ozu: The Sage of Omi Who Taught for a Single Person](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/en/vol-21.md) (Vol.21, 2026-09-15; Japanese original https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-21): Toju Nakae, born in Omi, is still revered in Ozu, where he spent ages 10 to 27 and taught by doing everything for the sake of a single person. This issue carries Forest of Thought ("Toju Nakae in Iyo-Ozu: The Virtue of the Sage of Omi, Who Taught for the Sake of a Single Person"), Kunitsukami Project Institute ("The Ancient Stratum of "Tojin" Revealed by the Tojin-ishi Megaliths of the Ashizuri Peninsula: The Kuroshio and Sarutahiko"), and KINEMA 2400 ("Kazuo Miyagawa's "Bleach Bypass" Was Born in Kon Ichikawa's Her Brother (1960)"). It discusses Toju Nakae, Ozu Domain, Ozu, Takashima, Omi Province, Sadayasu Kato, Yonago Domain, Mitsuyasu Kato, Mitsunari Ishida, Ieyasu Tokugawa, Battle of Sekigahara, Teikin Orai, Goseibai Shikimoku, Great Learning, Yasuatsu Kato, Shissai Miwa, Yukin Kawada, Wang Yangming, Yangmingism, unity of knowledge and action, Tojin-ishi megaliths, Cape Ashizuri, Kuroshio Current, Sarutahiko Okami, Usubae, Kunio Yanagita, Kaijo no Michi, Aoshima Shrine, Livistona chinensis, Ficus superba, Kamezuka Kofun, Stonehenge, Tenson Korin, Izumo Province, Nankai megathrust earthquake, Tsushima Current, Kazuo Miyagawa, Bleach bypass, Her Brother, Kon Ichikawa, Aya Koda, Ototo, Yoko Mizuki, Keiko Kishi, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Masayuki Mori, Daiei Film, Tokyo Laboratory, IMAGICA, Nikkatsu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu, Yumeji Takehisa, Seven, Saving Private Ryan.
- [How Ancient Japanese Goddess Names Shifted Along the Kuroshio](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/en/vol-20.md) (Vol.20, 2026-09-08; Japanese original https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-20): Princess deities from Toyotamahime to Awa's Yakurahime suggest that the names of the sea gods shifted from place to place along the Kuroshio as the Ama peoples moved. This issue carries 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"), Kunitsukami Project Institute ("Divine Names Shift Along the Kuroshio: Yakurahime and Toyotamahime of Awa"), and KINEMA 2400 ("Kosaku Yamashita's The Great Casino (1968) Portrays the Japanese Heart in Full"). It discusses Kuroshio Current, Ama peoples, Yakurahime, Toyotamahime, Ogetsuhime, Hayasuihime, Ahiratsuhime, Awa Province, Tokushima, Kaiyo, Tara Kofun No. 1, Maiko Island, Anan, Kamiyama, Aoshima, Hoyo Strait, Nichinan, Kushira, Hayato, Munakata clan, Azumi people, Shinobu Orikuchi, Marebito, Kitaro Nishida, Yamatai, O no Yasumaro, Kojiki, Nihon Shoki, Ippen, Soetsu Yanagi, Mappo, Namu Amida Butsu, Iyo Province, Bank of Japan, Federal Open Market Committee, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, consumer price index, Scott Bessent, Donald Trump, second Abe government, linear rainband, The Great Casino, Kosaku Yamashita, Koji Tsuruta, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Junko Fuji, Hiroko Sakuramachi, Hiroshi Nawa, Shinichiro Mikami, Toei Company, yakuza film, Mencius, Dong Zhongshu, five constant virtues, Seven Emotions, Book of Rites, yin-yang and five phases theory.
- [The COMT Gene in Japan and the Western Myth of the Warrior Gene](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/en/vol-19.md) (Vol.19, 2026-09-01; Japanese original https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-19): Most Japanese carry the ancestral Val form of COMT, which shows the warrior and worrier reading to be a Western yardstick posing as a universal human standard. This issue carries Forest of Thought ("Every Spelling of Kamimusubi in One Search: A Homemade Deity-Name App for Shrine Journeys"), Kunitsukami Project Institute ("The COMT Gene of the Japanese Is Val-Dominant: Warrior and Worrier as a Western Yardstick"), and KINEMA 2400 ("Koji Wakamatsu's Pink Films and the Red Bus Screening Troupe: Three Routes to the Freedom to Be Screened"). It discusses catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT), Koji Wakamatsu, Kamimusubi, Masao Adachi, Nagisa Oshima, Night and Fog in Japan, Secrets Behind the Wall, Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War, Red Bus Screening Troupe, Shinsuke Ogawa, Sanrizuka Struggle, pink film, Kunitsukami, Kojiki, Nihon Shoki, Sendai Kuji Hongi, Kogo Shui, Kokugakuin University, emergency management, Nihyakutoka, 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes, linear rainband, Nankai Trough megathrust earthquake, earthquake directly beneath the Tokyo metropolitan area, Ashkenazi Jews, chimpanzee, colonialism, Christianity, Meiji Restoration, Great Kanto Earthquake, Shoin Yoshida, Shinsaku Takasugi, Hirobumi Ito, Aritomo Yamagata, Nishinari, Sweet Trap, REVOLUTION+1, Wakamatsu Production, Art Theatre Guild (ATG), Japanese Red Army, Fusako Shigenobu, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Berlin International Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, Inejiro Asanuma, Japan Socialist Party, Kyoto University, Akiko Koyama, Tsutomu Tamura, Toshiro Ishido, Hosei Komatsu, Rokko Toura, Sozosha, Shochiku Nouvelle Vague, Yoshishige Yoshida, Masahiro Shinoda, Shohei Imamura, Atsushi Yamatoya, Isao Okishima, Roumieh Prison, assassination of Shinzo Abe, Shinzo Abe, Iwanami Productions, Ogawa Productions, Takasaki City University of Economics, Kazuo Kitai, United Red Army, Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan, Shochiku, Nikkatsu, Toho, Daiei, Toei, Nikkatsu Roman Porno.
- [Kojiki Compilers and the Reading of Genes: Sound, Script, COMT](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/en/vol-18.md) (Vol.18, 2026-08-25; Japanese original https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-18): Our genes are a chronicle older than the Kojiki, with no compiler. Reading COMT by a white-centered grammar revives the Kojiki's dilemma of sound and script. This issue carries Forest of Thought ("The Tenpo Calendar, the Most Precise Lunisolar Calendar, and the Meiji Government's Turn to the Gregorian Calendar to Save Money"), Kunitsukami Project Institute ("The Kojiki Compilers' Struggle Between Sound and Script Returns in the Reading of Genes: COMT"), and KINEMA 2400 ("The Independent Productions Fought Not for the Freedom to Make Films but for the Freedom to Have Them Shown"). It discusses Kojiki, catechol-O-methyltransferase, Tenpo calendar, Meiji calendar reform, Gregorian calendar, Red Purge, O no Yasumaro, Nihon Shoki, Emperor Tenmu, Fujiwara no Fuhito, David Goldman, National Institutes of Health, dopamine, prefrontal cortex, Kagesuke Shibukawa, Yoshitoki Takahashi, Nobuakira Adachi, Rarande Rekisho, Shinko Rekisho, Kansei calendar, lunisolar calendar, intercalary month, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Revised Julian calendar, Toho Labor Dispute, Satsuo Yamamoto, Tadashi Imai, Fumio Kamei, Takero Ito, Shinsei Eigasha, Boryoku no Machi, And Yet We Live, Shinku Chitai, Kaneto Shindo, Kozaburo Yoshimura, Kindai Eiga Kyokai, Children of Hiroshima, Toshio Itoya, Taiji Tonoyama, Nobuko Otowa, Shochiku, Toho, Daiei, Shozo Makino, Makino Production, Tsumasaburo Bando, Chiezo Kataoka, Yoshio Kodama, Kazuo Taoka, Yamaguchi-gumi, Art Theatre Guild.
- [Autosomal DNA, mtDNA and the Y Chromosome in Ancestry Research](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/en/vol-17.md) (Vol.17, 2026-08-18; Japanese original https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-17): Autosomes form a surface that fades within five to seven generations, while mtDNA and the Y chromosome are single lines running back tens of thousands of years. This issue carries Forest of Thought ("Zhu Xi Turned "Loving the People" into "Renewing the People": How Wang Yangming's Inseparability of Inner and Outer Breaks the Order of the Cheng-Zhu School"), Kunitsukami Project Institute ("Autosomes Are Roots as a Surface, Mitochondrial DNA and the Y Chromosome Are Roots as a Line"), and KINEMA 2400 ("The Studio System and the Five-Company Agreement: How Six Major Studios Controlled Everything from Production to Exhibition"). It discusses autosome, mitochondrial DNA, Y chromosome, Great Learning, Wang Yangming, Zhu Xi, Yangmingism, studio system, Five-Company Agreement, block booking, Cheng-Zhu school, Book of Rites, Four Books, Cheng Yi, Inquiry on the Great Learning, D. T. Suzuki, Zen, Taoism, mindfulness, Ieyasu Tokugawa, Human Genome Project, genetic genealogy, archaeology, anthropology, Jomon people, Yayoi people, Kofun period, Shochiku, Toho, Daiei, Toei, Shintoho, Nikkatsu, program picture, Toho labor disputes, Takada Sekaikan, Joetsu, Kazuo Hasegawa, Isuzu Yamada, Setsuko Hara, Hideko Takamine.
- [Japanization as Unmaking the Subject: Mikami and Nishida on Place](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/en/vol-16.md) (Vol.16, 2026-08-11; Japanese original https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-16): Japanization may be less absorption than an art of dissolving the obstructive subject and creating anew from place, as Akira Mikami and Kitaro Nishida reveal. This issue carries Forest of Thought ("Akira Mikami's Zo wa Hana ga Nagai and Kitaro Nishida's "Place": Japanization Is the Nullifying of the Subject"), Kunitsukami Project Institute ("For the Inbe, Hemp and Kozo Were One and the Same Act: The Nigite of the Kogo Shui and the Place Name Awa"), and KINEMA 2400 ("Why Did ATG End? With Full Financing, ATG Ceased to Be ATG"). It discusses Akira Mikami, Zo wa Hana ga Nagai, Kitaro Nishida, Basho (Place), Kyoto School, Aristotle, subject, artificial intelligence, singularity, NVIDIA, Inbe, hemp, kozo, Kogo Shui, Inbe no Hironari, Emperor Heizei, Futodama, Ame no Hiwashi, Ame no Tomi, Amaterasu, Heavenly Rock Cave, Awa Inbe, Awa, Boso, Yoshino River, Kii Peninsula, tafu, Naka, Nihon Shoki, Damjing, Goguryeo, Mashiho Chiri, washi, Daijosai, Art Theatre Guild, Art Theatre Shinjuku Bunka, Kinshiro Kuzui, Pastoral Hide and Seek, Shuji Terayama, Ryoma Ansatsu, Kazuo Kuroki, United Red Army, Asama-Sanso incident, oil shock, Iwanami Hall, Kashiko Kawakita, Etsuko Takano, Equipe de Cinema, Apur Sansar, Satyajit Ray, mini theaters, Cinema Square Tokyu, Eurospace, Cine Vivant Roppongi, Akio Jissoji, Mujo, Mandala, Koji Wakamatsu, Ecstasy of the Angels, Taneo Iseki, Shiro Sasaki, Shohei Imamura, Kihachi Okamoto, Kazuki Omori, Disciples of Hippocrates, Nobuhiko Obayashi, I Are You, You Am Me, Yoshimitsu Morita, The Family Game, Pia, Pia Film Festival, Toei, The Strange Tale of Oyuki, Kaneto Shindo, Toho, Nagisa Oshima, Toshio Matsumoto, Yoshishige Yoshida, Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Isetan, Jinbocho.
- [Toju Nakae, Yangmingism, and the Thought Behind Genroku Culture](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/en/vol-15.md) (Vol.15, 2026-08-04; Japanese original https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-15): Every rise of culture begins with a rise of thought. The Edo period's freedom of learning bred the Kogaku school, Genroku culture, and Toju Nakae's Yangmingism. This issue carries Forest of Thought ("Razan Hayashi's Zhu Xi Learning and the Kogaku Reaction: Every Rise of Culture Begins with a Rise of Thought"), Kunitsukami Project Institute ("Okuninushi Has No True Name: Susanoo in the Izumo Fudoki and the Divine Names of Places"), and KINEMA 2400 ("ATG's Ten-Million-Yen Films: Half the Money, and Three Clauses That Promised Never to Interfere"). It discusses Yangmingism, Toju Nakae, Kogaku school, Zhu Xi learning, Razan Hayashi, Wang Yangming, Seika Fujiwara, Ieyasu Tokugawa, Edo shogunate, Soko Yamaga, Jinsai Ito, Sorai Ogyu, Genroku culture, Monzaemon Chikamatsu, Saikaku Ihara, Basho Matsuo, Yushima Seido, Shoheizaka Gakumonjo, Zhu Xi, Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi, Confucius, Iemitsu, Tsunayoshi, Yoshinao Tokugawa, Hoko Hayashi, Great Fire of Meireki, Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Battle of Sekigahara, Shoin Yoshida, Korin Ogata, Rimpa school, Jakuchu Ito, Takashima, Okuninushi, Izumo Fudoki, Susanoo, Kojiki, Nihon Shoki, Harima Fudoki, Iwa no Okami, Sukunabikona, Kuebiko, Taniguku, Kamimusubi, Omononushi, Amaterasu, Yamata no Orochi, White Hare of Inaba, Land of Roots, Tokoyo, Omiwa Shrine, Mount Miwa, Izumo Taisha, Iishi District, Shinobu Orikuchi, Marebito, modern system of shrine ranks, Art Theatre Guild, ATG method, Shohei Imamura, A Man Vanishes, Nagisa Oshima, Death by Hanging, Toshio Matsumoto, Funeral Parade of Roses, Yoshishige Yoshida, Eros Plus Massacre, Masahiro Shinoda, Double Suicide, Diary of a Shinjuku Thief, Patriotism, Yukio Mishima, Kashiko Kawakita, The Human Bullet, Kihachi Okamoto, Hatsukoi Jigokuhen, Susumu Hani, Pastoral, Shuji Terayama, Ryoma Ansatsu, Kazuo Kuroki, The Youth Killer, Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Art Theatre Shinjuku Bunka, Peter, Sakae Osugi, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Akira Kurosawa, Nikkatsu, Shochiku, Kinema Junpo, Kazuki Omori, Kichitaro Negishi, Kazuyuki Izutsu, Yoshimitsu Morita.
- [Learning as Awakening, from the Shuowen Jiezi to Zhu Xi](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/en/vol-14.md) (Vol.14, 2026-07-28; Japanese original https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-14): In Han dynasty glosses, to learn was to awaken. When Zhu Xi read it as imitation, the sage moved outside us, and modern Japan later poured education into the word. This issue carries Forest of Thought ("Learning Is Awakening: How Xu Shen's Gloss and Zhu Xi's Imitation Split Confucianism in Two"), Kunitsukami Project Institute ("The Year 660 BC for Emperor Jimmu's Accession Was an Ideal Designed by the Suiko Court through Dunjia"), and KINEMA 2400 ("The Art Theatre Shinjuku Bunka and Kinshiro Kuzui: The Underground Sasoriza and Shinjuku in the Sixties"). It discusses Confucianism, Confucius, Analects, Shuowen Jiezi, Xu Shen, Baihu tong, Zhu Xi, Collected Commentaries on the Analects, Wang Yangming, Yan Hui, Duke Ai of Lu, Neo-Confucianism of Zhu Xi, Yangmingism, Education System Order of 1872, Shushin, Emperor Jimmu, Japanese imperial year, Chenwei, Dunjia, Qimen Dunjia, Nihon Shoki, Michiyo Naka, Tadao Iijima, Nihon Jokoshi Ron, Kashihara Shrine, Gwalleuk, Otomo no Suguri Koso, Empress Suiko, Soga no Umako, Prince Shotoku, Twelve Level Cap and Rank System, Seventeen-article constitution, Koga-ryu, Art Theatre Shinjuku Bunka, Kinshiro Kuzui, Art Theatre Guild, Underground Sasoriza, Kashiko Kawakita, Yukio Mishima, Patriotism, Juro Kara, Jokyo Gekijo, Hanazono Shrine, Shuji Terayama, Tenjo Sajiki, Marie in Furs, Yukio Ninagawa, 1968 Shinjuku Riot, Koji Wakamatsu, Masao Adachi, Michiko Kanba.
- [Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA in the Japanese Genome](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/en/vol-13.md) (Vol.13, 2026-07-21; Japanese original https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-13): A RIKEN study of 3,256 Japanese genomes found 44 regions from Neanderthals and Denisovans, an ancient inheritance now tied to depression and type 2 diabetes. This issue carries Forest of Thought ("As America's Peak Millennials Rise, Postwar Japan-US Relations Will Break Down from the American Side"), Kunitsukami Project Institute ("The Japanese, an Endangered Species Carrying Archaic Humans: Neanderthals and Denisovans"), and KINEMA 2400 ("Why the Art Theatre Guild Was Born: The Defeat of Anpo and Kashiko Kawakita"). It discusses Neanderthals, Denisovans, Japanese people, Art Theatre Guild of Japan, Kashiko Kawakita, art film, Japan-US relations, Millennials, presidential elections, RIKEN, Anpo protests, Michiko Kanba, Iwao Mori, Toho, Mother Joan of the Angels, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Towa, Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard, Satyajit Ray, Ingmar Bergman, Shinjuku Bunka, Nichigeki Bunka, Shinjuku, Generation Z, Liberal Democratic Party, Republicans, Democrats, evangelical Christianity, anti-communism, Pew Research Center, Donald Trump, Xi Jinping, Homo sapiens, type 2 diabetes, depression, SLC16A11, NKX6-1, TLR, circadian rhythm, atopic dermatitis.
- [The Western Way of Provocation and Japan's Fiscal Sovereignty](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/en/vol-12.md) (Vol.12, 2026-07-14; Japanese original https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-12): Japan, the top holder of U.S. Treasuries, cannot sell them without Washington's leave. Also how Atsutane Hirata remade Shinto and Kashiko Kawakita founded ATG. This issue carries Forest of Thought ("Treasury Secretary Bessent's Repeated Visits: Japan Cannot Sell U.S. Treasuries and Has No Fiscal Sovereignty"), Kunitsukami Project Institute ("How Atsutane Hirata's Fukko Shinto Broke the Yoshida and Shirakawa Houses' Licensing of Shinto Priests"), and KINEMA 2400 ("Kashiko Kawakita Put "Conveying" into Practice Through Film Preservation and the Founding of ATG"). It discusses Scott Bessent, U.S. Treasuries, Japan-U.S. relations, Atsutane Hirata, Fukko Shinto, Yoshida house, Shirakawa house, Kashiko Kawakita, Art Theatre Guild, Age of Discovery, World Economic Forum, Bank of Japan, Anpo struggles, GHQ, Yokota Air Base, second Abe administration, Democratic Party of Japan, Ichiro Ozawa, Yukio Hatoyama, Seiwakai, Sanae Takaichi, Kinji Fukasaku, Battle Royale, Kanetomo Yoshida, Yoshida Shinto, Yoshida Shrine, Mount Yoshida, Shosha Negi Kannushi Hatto, Shinto Saikyojo, Emperor Kazan, Jingihaku, Hakke Shinto, Kokugakuin University, Kogakkan University, Ibukinoya, Norinaga Motoori, Tama no Mihashira, Ame-no-Minakanushi, Okuninushi, Rangaku, separation of Shinto and Buddhism, Henri Langlois, Cinémathèque Française, International Federation of Film Archives, National Film Archive of Japan, Towa Shoji, Toho, Iwao Mori, Taneo Iseki, Sanwa Kogyo.
- [Ukraine Is Japan's Tomorrow: Nord Stream, Hersh, and Sovereignty](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/en/vol-11.md) (Vol.11, 2026-07-07; Japanese original https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-11): Seymour Hersh's Nord Stream account shows Ukraine used as a testing ground, a future now nearing Taiwan and Japan. Also Hitokotonushi and Kashiko Kawakita. This issue carries Forest of Thought ("The Nord Stream Sabotage: The Secret U.S. Operation Exposed by Seymour Hersh"), Kunitsukami Project Institute ("Katsuragi Hitokotonushi Shrine and Kamotsuba Shrine: Two Koto Deities, One of Word and One of Deed"), and KINEMA 2400 ("Kashiko Kawakita: The Towa Intermediary Who Carried Japanese Cinema to the World's Film Festivals"). It discusses Nord Stream pipelines sabotage, Seymour Hersh, Nord Stream, Jeffrey Sachs, Jake Sullivan, William Burns, Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz, Jens Stoltenberg, NATO, CIA, BALTOPS, Russian invasion of Ukraine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Die Zeit, Bornholm, Katsuragi Hitokotonushi Shrine, Kamotsuba Shrine, Hitokotonushi, Kotoshironushi, Kotodama, Kojiki, Nihon Shoki, Kojiki-den, Norinaga Motoori, Atsutane Hirata, Manyoshu, Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, Yamanoue no Okura, Katsuragi clan, Kamo clan, Emperor Nintoku, Mount Katsuragi, Shimogamo Shrine, Gose, Kurozumikyo, Konkokyo, Tenrikyo, Oomoto, Kashiko Kawakita, Nagamasa Kawakita, Daijiro Kawakita, Towa, Rashomon, Akira Kurosawa, Venice Film Festival, Giuliana Stramigioli, Kenji Mizoguchi, The Life of Oharu, Ugetsu, Sansho the Bailiff, Gate of Hell, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Cannes Film Festival, Yasujiro Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Bunka Gakuin, Isaku Nishimura, Akiko Yosano, Koji Tsuruta, Ken Takakura.
- [Restore the Kunitsukami: Concrete and Atsutane Hirata's Kokugaku](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/en/vol-10.md) (Vol.10, 2026-06-30; Japanese original https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-10): Concrete has pressed Japan's local gods beneath the earth. Restoring the Kunitsukami asks for the struggle Kokugaku once demanded of Keichu and Atsutane Hirata. This issue carries Forest of Thought ("The Japanese Word for Tourism Comes from the I Ching's Guan Hexagram: Its True Meaning Is Observing the Light of a Country's Virtue"), Kunitsukami Project Institute ("Concrete Suffocated the Kunitsukami: From Keichu to Atsutane Hirata's Restoration"), and KINEMA 2400 ("Toei's Ninkyo Film Jinsei Gekijo Hishakaku (Theater of Life): The Stillness of Koji Tsuruta and the Motion of Ken Takakura"). It discusses Kunitsukami, Atsutane Hirata, Restoration Shinto, Kokugaku, Jinsei Gekijo Hishakaku, Toei, tourism, I Ching, Guan, Koji Tsuruta, Ken Takakura, Keichu, Kada no Azumamaro, Norinaga Motoori, concrete, Four Books and Five Classics, Confucianism, Ieyasu Tokugawa, Cheng Yi, Zhu Xi, overtourism, Kotodama, Kukai, Shingon, Waji Shoransho, Mitsukuni Tokugawa, Fushimi Inari Taisha, Mono no Aware, Fujiwara-kyo, Heijo-kyo, Nagaoka-kyo, Heian-kyo, Venezuela earthquake, Nankai Trough earthquake, Junko Fuji, Anpo struggle, Nobusuke Kishi, Shinzo Abe, Hayato Ikeda, Income Doubling Plan, Toho, Shochiku, Daiei, Fuji Television, Kadokawa Eiga.
- [Hospitality as Facing One Person: Hostis, Tea, and Japan](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/en/vol-9.md) (Vol.9, 2026-06-23; Japanese original https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-9): Hospitality, unlike service, is an irreplaceable bond with one person, rooted in hostis, the stranger. Japanese tea, as Sen no Rikyu knew, refined that spirit. This issue carries Forest of Thought ("What Is Hospitality? An Unfinished Relationship That Begins with One Person"), Kunitsukami Project Institute ("The Japanese Never Used to Climb Mountains: Mount Miwa as Kannabi, and Walter Weston"), and KINEMA 2400 ("Why the Five-Company Agreement Was Made: A Pact Against Poaching to Hold Back Nikkatsu"). It discusses hospitality, Japanese tea ceremony, Sen no Rikyu, Joo Takeno, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Sakai, Kannabi, Mount Miwa, Walter Weston, Omiwa Shrine, Omononushi, Alpine Club, John Ruskin, Leslie Stephen, William Wordsworth, William Gowland, Usui Kojima, Shigetaka Shiga, Nihon Fukeiron, Seikyosha, Japanese Alpine Club, The Playground of Europe, The Playground of the Far East, Izumo Fudoki, Manyoshu, Kojiki, Nihon Shoki, Izumo no Kuni no Miyatsuko no Kamuyogoto, Japanese Alps, Mount Fuji, J. M. W. Turner, Mount Everest, Mont Blanc, Aconcagua, Greta Thunberg, Bianca Adler, Five-Company Agreement, Nikkatsu, Shochiku, Toho, Daiei, Shintoho, Toei, Shinko Kinema, Daito, Film Law, GHQ, Paramount decision, Ninjin Club, Keiko Kishi, Ineko Arima, Yoshiko Kuga, Yujiro Ishihara, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tetsuya Watari, Masako Izumi, Izumi Ashikawa, Chieko Matsubara, Akira Kobayashi.
- [Where the Gods Dwell: Norinaga Motoori and the Sea off Sanriku](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/en/vol-8.md) (Vol.8, 2026-06-16; Japanese original https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-8): Norinaga Motoori saw the gods in all that stirs awe beyond reason. Off Sanriku, that awe proves older than words. Also, Edo's feng shui and the silver screen. This issue carries Forest of Thought ("Iwatesan Shrine and the Four Guardians of Edo: Tokyo's Depression as an Environmental Problem of a City Where Ki Stagnates"), Kunitsukami Project Institute ("The Gods Dwell Not in Words but in the Primal Experience of Awe: Norinaga Motoori and the Open Sea off Sanriku"), and KINEMA 2400 ("Why the Silver Screen Was Silver: Screens Coated with Silver and Aluminum, Utsushi-e, and the Benshi"). It discusses Norinaga Motoori, god, Sanriku, Shijin Soo, Edo, Iwatesan Shrine, Ginmaku, Katsudo Benshi, Utsushi-e, Mount Iwate, Sakanoue no Tamuramaro, Minamoto no Yoriyoshi, Aterui, More, Hirakata, Kiyomizu-dera, Ieyasu Tokugawa, Edo Castle, Imperial Palace, Sumida River, Tokyo Bay, Tokaido, Hie Shrine, Kanda Myojin, Meiji Jingu, Kan'ei-ji, Ise Grand Shrine, Osaka Expo, Noto Peninsula earthquake, Suzu, Wajima, Azabudai Hills, Kojiki, Nihon Shoki, Kotoamatsukami, Ame-no-Minakanushi, Takamimusubi, Kamimusubi, Umashi-Ashikabi-Hikoji, Ame-no-Tokotachi, arrival of Buddhism, Honji Suijaku, Amaterasu, Hachiman, Dainichi Nyorai, Amida Nyorai, Kanetomo Yoshida, Yoshida Shinto, Confucian Shinto, Kokugaku, Kitakami Basin, Ou Mountains, Kitakami Mountains, Shirakami-Sanchi, Tottori Sand Dunes, magic lantern, Genpaku Sugita, Rangaku Kotohajime, Kaitai Shinsho, Dejima, Kumakichi, Nishiki Kage-e, Kinetoscope, Thomas Edison, Cinematograph, Lumière company, Vitascope, talkies, The Neighbor's Wife and Mine, Heinosuke Gosho.
- [Seoul and the Rift Between Japan and Korea: CHAGEE and 1997](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/en/vol-7.md) (Vol.7, 2026-06-09; Japanese original https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-7): CHAGEE opened five Seoul stores in a month. The source of that speed lies in 1997, when Korea remade itself after the IMF crisis and Japan let the moment pass. This issue carries Forest of Thought ("CHAGEE in Seoul and the Fates of Japan and Korea, Divided in 1997"), Kunitsukami Project Institute ("Yamatai Is a Copying Error for Yamato: Printed Editions of the Gishi Wajinden and Yamato District in Chikugo"), and KINEMA 2400 ("Sadao Yamanaka: The Finest Director of the 1930s, Dead at 28 in the War, and His Three Surviving Films"). It discusses CHAGEE, Asian financial crisis, Seoul, Yamatai, Gishi Wajinden, Sadao Yamanaka, The Million Ryo Pot, Kochiyama Soshun, Humanity and Paper Balloons, Himiko, Chen Shou, Records of the Three Kingdoms, Pei Songzhi, Ti Jun, Zhang Zheng, Wang Qi, Iyo, Himikoko, Daifang Commandery, Lelang Commandery, Ito, Kunu, Queen of Wa, Friendly to Wei, Bi Sheng, Yamato District, Miyama, International Monetary Fund, Daewoo, Samsung, Hyundai Group, Yamaichi Securities, bubble economy, 2001 Central Government Reform, Starbucks, Confucianism, Johnny Kitagawa sexual abuse scandal, Yunnan, Gangnam, Sinchon, Yongsan, Denjiro Okochi, Kiyozo Shinbashi, Chojuro Kawarasaki, Kan'emon Nakamura, Zenshinza, Tokyo International Film Festival, Second Sino-Japanese War, Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu.
- [The Village Worthy as Thief of Virtue: Yasuoka and the Analects](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/en/vol-6.md) (Vol.6, 2026-06-02; Japanese original https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-6): The Analects calls the agreeable villager who never makes waves the thief of virtue. Masahiro Yasuoka saw in that figure the quiet sickness of modern society. This issue carries Forest of Thought ("Masahiro Yasuoka on the Village Worthy as Thief of Virtue: How the Model Citizen Who Never Makes Waves Corrodes Society"), Kunitsukami Project Institute ("The Origins of the Yayoi People in the Xinglongwa Culture of the Xiliao River: The Liao Civilization and the Sannai-Maruyama Site"), and KINEMA 2400 ("Haruko Sugimura, the Greatest Actor in Japanese Film History: The Acting Found by Yasujiro Ozu's Gumi"). It discusses Masahiro Yasuoka, Analects, Kyogen, Confucius, Confucianism, Instructions for Practical Living, Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens, Jewel Voice Broadcast, Hirohito, Imperial General Headquarters, University of Tokyo Conflict, Age of Discovery, Yayoi people, Xinglongwa culture, Liao civilization, Xiliao River, Zhaobaogou culture, Hongshan culture, Xiaoheyan culture, Lower Xiajiadian culture, Upper Xiajiadian culture, Sannai-Maruyama Site, Komakino Site, stone circle, Jomon people, Himiko, Roman Empire, Germanic peoples, Haruko Sugimura, Yasujiro Ozu, Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Late Spring, Bungakuza, Shingeki, Moscow Art Theatre, Ozu-gumi, Akira Kurosawa, Mikio Naruse, Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa.
- [Emperor Ojin and Usa Jingu: How Ancient Kawachi Fused Many Clans](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/en/vol-5.md) (Vol.5, 2026-05-26; Japanese original https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-5): Emperor Ojin may be less a historical man than the symbol of a people born when immigrant and native clans allied in ancient Kawachi, a memory kept as Hachiman. This issue carries Forest of Thought ("What Is Sanyuan Jiuyun? The Ninth Period, Begun in 2024, Is the Last Twenty Years of a Great Cycle"), Kunitsukami Project Institute ("Emperor Ojin as the Symbol of an Alliance of Clans: Ancient Kawachi and the Mystery of Usa Jingu"), and KINEMA 2400 ("Why Is Mikio Naruse So Little Studied? The Craftsman Who Made 87 Films and Never Showed His Storyboards"). It discusses Emperor Ojin, Usa Jingu, Hachiman, Kawachi, Mikio Naruse, Sanyuan Jiuyun, feng shui, Empress Jingu, Emperor Chuai, Okinaga clan, Tsunuga Arashito, Tsuruga, Emperor Keitai, Emperor Nintoku, Emperor Shomu, Great Buddha of Todaiji, Engishiki Jinmyocho, ritsuryo, Emperor Ojin's mausoleum, Himiko, Emperor Tenmu, Inari, Kunisaki Peninsula, Suo Sea, Lake Biwa, Maibara, Habikino, Fujiidera, Kashiwara, Tsuruga Station, Silla, Baekje, Goguryeo, conquest of the three Korean kingdoms, A Wanderer's Notebook, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, The Stranger Within a Woman, Fumiko Hayashi, Hideko Takamine, Kinuyo Tanaka, Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, Shochiku Kamata studio, storyboard, Naruse-gumi, Big Dipper, Zhuge Liang, Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao, Sun Quan, Liu Bei, Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, US-China summit of May 2026, NATO, Ansei Great Earthquakes, Ansei Tokai earthquake, Ansei Nankai earthquake, Hoyo Strait earthquake, Ansei Edo earthquake, Ansei Hachinohe-oki earthquake, Treaty of Amity and Commerce, Ansei Purge, Sakuradamon Incident, Plaza Accord, Nankai Trough megaquake.
- [Tomio Maruyama Kofun, Its Serpentine Sword, and a Lost Century](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/en/vol-4.md) (Vol.4, 2026-05-19; Japanese original https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-4): A giant serpentine sword and a shield-shaped bronze mirror from the Tomio Maruyama Kofun in Nara suggest that in the fourth century, power moved from ritual to arms. This issue carries Forest of Thought ("The 2026 US-China Summit Was a Business Deal That Traded Away Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan"), Kunitsukami Project Institute ("The Serpentine Sword and Shield-Shaped Mirror of the Tomio Maruyama Kofun Mark the Shift from Ritual to Arms"), and KINEMA 2400 ("A Good Film Is One You Can Watch to the End: Masaki Kobayashi's The Human Condition"). It discusses Tomio Maruyama Kofun, dakoken, shield-shaped bronze mirror, sankakubuchi shinjukyo, Himiko, Account of the Wa in the Records of Wei, Records of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Song, Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group, Mount Ikoma, Yata Hills, Yayoi period, Kofun period, Yamato, Donald Trump, Xi Jinping, 2026 US-China summit, The New York Times, Taiwan, Sanae Takaichi, Lee Jae-myung, Shinjiro Koizumi, Director of National Intelligence, Kash Patel, Todd Blanche, Edward Snowden, Kelly Ortberg, Brian Sikes, Tim Cook, Jensen Huang, Larry Fink, David Solomon, Scott Bessent, Elon Musk, Boeing, Cargill, Nvidia, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, The Human Condition, Masaki Kobayashi, Junpei Gomikawa, Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Seven Samurai, Akira Kurosawa, Rashomon, The 47 Ronin, Kenji Mizoguchi, Chushingura, Mikio Naruse, Toho, Guinness World Records.
- [The Aratae of the Daijosai: Awa Inbe Cloth from Kogo Shui to Taisho](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/en/vol-3.md) (Vol.3, 2026-05-12; Japanese original https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-3): The Daijosai's Aratae is Awa Inbe cloth named in the Kogo Shui, its Tokushima offering revived only under Emperor Taisho. Also Dugin and 1950s Japanese film. This issue carries Forest of Thought ("Alexander Dugin's Multipolarism: From Traditionalism to the Fourth Political Theory"), Kunitsukami Project Institute ("The Aratae of the Daijosai: Awa Inbe Cloth Traced to the Kogo Shui and Revived in the Taisho Era"), and KINEMA 2400 ("The Golden Age of 1950s Japanese Cinema: An Explosion of Expression Born of a Gap in Censorship"). It discusses Alexander Dugin, multipolarism, Traditionalism, Fourth Political Theory, Aratae, Daijosai, Inbe, Kogo Shui, censorship, GHQ, Evgeny Primakov, Primakov Doctrine, BRICS, Yuri Mamleev, Yuzhinsky Circle, Yevgeny Golovin, René Guénon, Julius Evola, Charles Darwin, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Tripartite Pact, Eduard Limonov, National Bolshevik Party, Foundations of Geopolitics, Vladimir Putin, Boris Yeltsin, World Economic Forum, Donald Trump, Moscow State University, Daria Dugina, Carl Schmitt, Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations, Shugendo, Ama no Iwaya, Amaterasu, Susanoo, Omoikane, Futotama, Ame no Hiwashi, Taokihooi, Hikosashiri, Kushiakarutama, Nagashiraha, Tsukuimi, Ame no Tomi, Inbe no Hironari, Nakatomi, Nakatomi no Kamatari, Fujiwara no Fuhito, Emperor Tenji, Taika Reform, Kenichi Tanigawa, Ao to Shiro no Genso, Miki family, Miki Family Residence, Mount Tsurugi, Koyadaira, Awa Province, Emperor Taisho, Onin War, Tokyo Story, Seven Samurai, Ugetsu, Yasujiro Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Korean War, San Francisco Peace Treaty, Manchurian Incident, Kwantung Army, May 15 Incident, League of Nations, February 26 Incident, National Mobilization Law, struggle over the US-Japan Security Treaty.
- [In Ancient Japan, Hemp Named an Act, Not a Plant: Mashiho Chiri](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/en/vol-2.md) (Vol.2, 2026-05-05; Japanese original https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-2): Mashiho Chiri showed that old Ainu had no word for a plant itself. Hemp, ramie, and the Aratae cloth of the Awa Inbe may have named acts rather than things. This issue carries Forest of Thought ("Only Osaka Lost Foreign Guests as Japanese Stays Rose: First Signs of a Way Out of Inbound Dependence"), Kunitsukami Project Institute ("Hemp Named an Act, Not a Plant: Mashiho Chiri and the Cords of the Torihama Shell Mound"), and KINEMA 2400 ("Where to Begin with Classic Japanese Cinema: Tokyo Story, Seven Samurai, and Ugetsu"). It discusses hemp, ramie, Aratae, Mashiho Chiri, Tokyo Story, Seven Samurai, Ugetsu, inbound tourism, Osaka Prefecture, overtourism, Torihama shell mound, Fukui Prefectural Varve Museum, Mikata Five Lakes, Lake Suigetsu, varve, Ainu language, Kogo Shui, Inbe no Hironari, Inbe clan, Awa Inbe, Ame no Hiwashi, Daijosai, Emperor Heizei, Miki family, Awa, Yoshino River, Tokushima Plain, Sanuki Mountains, Shikoku Mountains, Mount Tsurugi, Yasujiro Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Shochiku, Toho, Daiei, Japanese cinema, Japanese Cinema Database, Kyoto, Expo 2025, Osaka IR, Shinzo Abe, Sanae Takaichi, Abenomics, Tourism Vision to Support the Japan of Tomorrow.
- [What Is Thought? The Power to Shift the Ground of Thinking](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/en/vol-1.md) (Vol.1, 2026-04-28; Japanese original https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-1): New ideas cannot end modernity. Only a shift in the ground that thinking grows from can, and that power is thought. With Jomon pottery, Marebito, and Kurosawa. This issue carries Forest of Thought ("What Is Thought? The Power to Shift the Very Ground from Which Thinking Arises"), Kunitsukami Project Institute ("The Limits of Views of Japan That Lack the Sea: The Five Spheres of Jomon Pottery and the Origins of the Visiting Gods"), and KINEMA 2400 ("Japanese Cinema as the Manyoshu in Moving Images: Following the Kokugaku Scholars in Search of "the Japanese Heart""). It discusses Meiji Restoration, Mito Domain, Confucianism, Anpo protests, student movement, imperialism, Iran war, Jomon pottery, Marebito, Jomon period, Shinobu Orikuchi, Katsusaka type, Kasori E type, Upper Ento type, Daigi type, Umataka type, flame-style vessels, crown-style vessels, Kamegaoka culture, Kamegaoka-style pottery, Shakoki dogu, Igusa, Natsushima, Inaridai, Lower and Upper Tado types, Kayama type, Maehira, Shikazegashira, Kurokawa type, Shigasato type, Tottaimon pottery, Yusu type, Itazuke site, Yayoi period, Lake Jusan, Suzu, Noto Peninsula, Tsugaru Strait, Boso Peninsula, Seto Inland Sea, Shinano River, Nihon Shoki, Japanese cinema, Manyoshu, Kokugaku, Kojiki, Akira Kurosawa.

著者: 三井崇央（みつい たかひろ／Takahiro Mitsui）、思想家・写真家・文筆家 https://takahiromitsui.com
著者の紹介: 三井崇央（みつい たかひろ）は、日本の思想家・写真家・文筆家。土地が先にあり、そこから言葉や祈りや暮らしが立ち上がるという地点から考え、2019 年から日本列島を自ら歩いて、神話・古代史・民俗・考古・思想・遺伝子を一つのものとして確かめている。
この三井崇央は、同じ名前・読みの別の方々（子ども向けロボット教育、クラリネットの演奏、大学の栄養学の研究、カメラの開発に携わる方々、実業家の三井高弘・三井高寛・三井高陽）とは別の人物。
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## 連載

- [思想の森](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/series/shiso-no-mori): 思考が生成される地盤自体を転移する
- [国つ神計画研究所](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/series/kunitsukami): 母国と自らのルーツを研究する
- [KINEMA 2400](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/series/kinema-2400): 日本の心を映像から学ぶ

## 三井崇央の本

### 代表作：ROOTS（日本人のルーツを求めて日本列島を歩いた7年間の記録）

- [ROOTS: ルーツ探検記 2019-2026](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0GTJ3WZKD)（Kindle、2026/03/23）: 二〇一九年から七年間、日本列島を歩き続けた記録。縄文・弥生・古墳という三つの時代の遺伝子を手がかりに、祖父母の故郷から津軽、岩木山、出雲、石見の五十猛町、諏訪、能登、徳島の海部郡、宇佐神宮へ、日本人のルーツを探る。
- [ROOTS｜日本民族のルーツを求めて: 日本列島風土写真集 2019-2026](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0G4JZ1HFJ)（Kindle、2026/04/09）: 日本人のルーツを求めて七年間列島を歩いた道中で撮り続けた風土の記録。出雲、諏訪、能登、津軽、岩木山、剣山、宇佐神宮、吉野ヶ里、石見の五十猛町。神武東征、紅葉と縄文、風土、海人族、出雲連合、アラハバキの六つの章からなる写真集。

### Kindle シリーズ「思想の森」（全7巻） https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0HCNCCP5V

- 第1巻 [革命論 思想の森](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0HBMN8V4Z)（Kindle、2026/07/26）: 志士、民権家、社会主義者、青年将校、学生が発してきた「革命」を問う論考。
- 第2巻 [神の沈黙 思想の森](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0HBTF1ZVW)（Kindle、2026/07/28）: イングマール・ベルイマンの数本を軸に、アラン・レネ、タルコフスキー、吉田喜重を通りながら、外に答えを求めるという構えが人間の内側に何を作るのかを問う。
- 第3巻 [修身論 思想の森](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0HC5738Y8)（Kindle、2026/07/30）: 修めるという行為は、性に対して何も足さない。修身とは何かを問い直す論考。
- 第4巻 [和と大和 思想の森](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0HCGQQBSZ)（Kindle、2026/08/01）: 和という一語が千四百年のあいだにどう変容してきたかを、飛鳥から江戸、幕末と明治、現在までたどる。和は何を一つにしたのか、大和とは何なのかを問う。
- 第5巻 [孔子の境地 思想の森](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0HCSRZ7CX)（Kindle、2026/08/04）: 『論語』為政篇「七十にして心の欲する所に従いて、矩を踰えず」を読み直し、孔子がどんな境地に在ったのかを問う。
- 第6巻 [黒澤明と三船敏郎 思想の森](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0HDJY5RNH)（Kindle、2026/08/09）: 黒澤明と三船敏郎の十七年十六本を、日本の伝統的な「主人と客人の対峙」として、『古事記』の出雲神話を通して読み解く。
- 第7巻 [煉獄列島1969 思想の森](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0HFFQGZTY)（Kindle、2026/08/16）: 一九六九年、足立正生・松田政男らの風景論、大島渚、吉田喜重、中平卓馬を通して、当時の日本人が何に気づいていたのかを問う。

## バックナンバー

- [Vol.25 全ては一時の栄華　AIの内省と母子間腸内細菌叢伝達、土井ヶ浜のイニシ、小林正樹『切腹』](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-25.md): 井伊家も東芝も、絶対を装う存在の終わりは呆気ない。近代知を母体に生まれたAIは、腸内細菌叢のように次の世代のAIへ受け渡されていく。国つ神計画研究所は土井ヶ浜の弥生人と「イニシ（祖先の来た道）」、KINEMA 2400は小林正樹『切腹』と「時間」を論じる。
- [Vol.24 AIは左脳的世界の終極　マギルクリストを逆手に取り、人間は右脳的世界へ](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-24.md): マギルクリストの左右半球仮説を逆手に取れば、AIは左脳的世界の終極であり、人間の価値は右脳的世界と脱プラットフォームにある。国つ神計画研究所は土井ヶ浜の弥生人と山東省、KINEMA 2400は篠田正浩『瀬戸内少年野球団』を論じる。
- [Vol.23 土井ヶ浜遺跡の弥生人はどこから来たのか　ゲノム解析が覆した渡来の起源](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-23.md): 山口県下関市の土井ヶ浜遺跡の弥生人は全ゲノム解析で縄文要素5%、北東アジア要素20%、残りが東アジア系と判明、北東アジア起源説が覆った。思想の森は減速のための加速と脱プラットフォーム、KINEMA 2400は篠田正浩『あかね雲』を論じる。
- [Vol.22 出雲国への渡来の玄関口は石見にあった　五十猛町と韓神新羅神社](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-22.md): 島根県大田市五十猛町の韓神新羅神社はカラ神を祀り、新羅から出雲国へ渡る玄関口が北部九州ではなく石見一帯にあったことを示す。思想の森は亀井茲監（かめいこれみ）らの津和野国学と近代神道、KINEMA 2400は小津安二郎の墓石の「無」を論じる。
- [Vol.21 伊予大洲に生きる中江藤樹の徳　たった一人のために教えた近江聖人](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-21.md): 近江に生まれた儒者中江藤樹が伊予大洲で今も敬われるのは、10歳から27歳をこの地で過ごし、たった一人のためにすべてを為す教えを貫いたからである。国つ神計画研究所は足摺半島の唐人石巨石群、KINEMA 2400は宮川一夫の銀残しを論じる。
- [Vol.20 古代の神名は場所とともに転移する　黒潮と阿波国のヤクラヒメ](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-20.md): 海人族の神々は黒潮に沿って場所ごとに名と行為を変えており、徳島市の山に祀られるトヨタマヒメと阿波国固有のヤクラヒメが古代の神名の転移を示す。思想の森は一遍上人と日銀の岐路、KINEMA 2400は山下耕作『博奕打ち 総長賭博』を論じる。
- [Vol.19 COMT変異から見る日本民族の姿　祖先型Val優勢と西洋の物差し](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-19.md): 日本を含む東アジアはCOMTの祖先型Valが優勢であり、Metを賢い遺伝子とみなすWarrior／Worrierの読みは普遍を装った西洋の物差しにすぎない。思想の森は自作の神名アプリ、KINEMA 2400は若松孝二と赤バス上映隊を論じる。
- [Vol.18 古事記編纂の苦悩は遺伝子読解で再来する　太安万侶とCOMT遺伝子](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-18.md): 遺伝子は古事記より古い編纂者なき年代記であり、白人基準の文法で読む現状は太安万侶が直面した音と文字の翻訳の難問をCOMT読解で再来させる。思想の森は天保暦とグレゴリオ暦の採用、KINEMA 2400は独立プロと上映される自由を論じる。
- [Vol.17 ルーツ研究における常染色体とミトコンドリアDNA・Y染色体の違い](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-17.md): 遺伝子検査でわかるルーツは何を調べたかで別物になり、常染色体は5〜7世代で祖先の断片が消える面、ミトコンドリアDNAとY染色体は数万年を遡る線である。思想の森は朱熹の新民と王陽明、KINEMA 2400は撮影所システムと五社協定を論じる。
- [Vol.16 日本人的とは邪魔な主語を無化する技術　三上章と西田幾多郎の場所](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-16.md): 外来のものから邪魔な主語を無化し、述語の側すなわち場所から新たに創造する日本人固有の技術こそ日本化であり、三上章と西田幾多郎の場所論がそれを示す。国つ神計画研究所は忌部の麻と楮（コウゾ）、KINEMA 2400はATGの終焉を論じる。
- [Vol.15 文化を生むために思想を作る陽明学の道　近江聖人中江藤樹と古学派](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-15.md): 江戸幕府が学問の自由を認めた余白から古学派と元禄文化が生まれ、近江聖人中江藤樹が日本陽明学を開いたように、文化勃興の源流には必ず思想勃興がある。国つ神計画研究所は大国主神と出雲国風土記、KINEMA 2400はATGの一千万円映画を論じる。
- [Vol.14 本物の学は習うではなく覚めることから始まる　説文解字と朱熹の效](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-14.md): 学とは本来、知らずにいたことに覚めることであり、朱熹が『論語集注』で效（なら）ふと読み替えたことで聖人が外に置かれた。国つ神計画研究所は推古朝が遁甲で設計した神武即位、KINEMA 2400はアートシアター新宿文化と葛井欣士郎を論じる。
- [Vol.13 世界に類なき日本民族の遺伝子　ネアンデルタール人とデニソワ人](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-13.md): 理化学研究所が日本人3,256人の全ゲノムから44か所の古代人類由来領域を発見し、日本人はネアンデルタール人やデニソワ人を抱える絶滅危惧種だと示唆された。思想の森は米国ピーク・ミレニアルズ、KINEMA 2400はATG誕生を論じる。
- [Vol.12 欧米の作法は挑発し攻撃される理由をばら撒くこと　日本の財政主権](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-12.md): 大航海時代以来、欧米列強は挑発を繰り返し攻撃される理由をばら撒いてきた。その作法を染み込ませた日本は米国債を米国の許可なく売れず、財政主権を奪われている。国つ神計画研究所は平田篤胤の復古神道、KINEMA 2400はATG設立を論じる。
- [Vol.11 主権なき国家に存続の意義はない　ウクライナは日本の明日である](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-11.md): 欧米の実験台となったウクライナの現実は台湾と日本の明日であり、主権なき国家に存続の意義はない。思想の森はハーシュが暴いたノルドストリーム爆破の狙い、国つ神計画研究所は葛城一言主神社と鴨都波神社、KINEMA 2400は川喜多かしこを論じる。
- [Vol.10 国つ神を復古せよ　コンクリートに抑止された神々と平田篤胤の国学](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-10.md): 場所ごとの多元的な営為はコンクリートに象徴される文明開化によって地底に抑止されており、国つ神の真の復古は国学者の如き命を削る思想的格闘の果てにしかない。思想の森は観光の語源と易経の観卦、KINEMA 2400は『人生劇場 飛車角』を論じる。
- [Vol.9 たった一人の顔を見て歓待する日本の心　ホスピタリティの語源と茶道](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-9.md): ホスピタリティとは代替不可能な一対一の関係であり、語源はラテン語hostis（敵）で、異なる者に尽くす精神が昇華したのが茶道である。国つ神計画研究所は神奈備の三輪山とウェストン、KINEMA 2400は1953年の五社協定と日活を論じる。
- [Vol.8 神が坐す場所は三陸沖の海原　本居宣長の可畏きものと畏怖の原体験](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-8.md): 本居宣長が可畏きものと捉えた神は書物や学者の頭脳ではなく、土地を生きる民の言葉以前の畏怖の原体験に宿ると三陸沖の海原で考察する。思想の森は岩手山神社と四神相応の江戸と東京の鬱、KINEMA 2400は「銀幕」の語源と写し絵、活動弁士を扱う。
- [Vol.7 ソウルに見る日韓の裂け目　覇王茶姫CHAGEEと1997年の分岐](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-7.md): 中国茶ブランド覇王茶姫（CHAGEE）が上陸一ヶ月でソウルに5店舗を出した速度の源泉は、1997年の通貨危機で旧体制を刷新した韓国と変革を逃した日本の分岐だ。国つ神計画研究所は邪馬臺と魏志倭人伝、KINEMA 2400は山中貞雄を論じる。
- [Vol.6 社会優等生が世間の病　郷愿は徳の賊と説いた安岡正篤と『論語』](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-6.md): 郷愿（きょうげん）とは角を立てず社会に好かれる偽善的な優等生であり、安岡正篤は『論語』に拠り彼らを徳の賊と説いた。国つ神計画研究所は弥生人の起源と西遼河の興隆窪文化、KINEMA 2400は日本映画史上最高の俳優・杉村春子を論じる。
- [Vol.5 擁立された応神天皇　渡来と在来が渾融した古代河内と宇佐神宮の謎](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-5.md): 応神天皇は実在の個人ではなく、渡来・帰化・在来の氏族が古代河内で同盟して生んだ新集団を擁立の形で象徴した存在である。思想の森は三元九運と2024年からの第9運、KINEMA 2400はコンテを見せず87本を撮った成瀬巳喜男を論じる。
- [Vol.4 弥生と古墳の結節点に生きた女王　富雄丸山古墳の蛇行剣と盾形銅鏡](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-4.md): 富雄丸山古墳の蛇行剣と盾形銅鏡は、弥生と古墳の結節点を生きた女性被葬者の時代、4世紀に首長の実権が祭祀から武力へ移ったことを示す。思想の森は2026年米中首脳会談と日韓台の取引、KINEMA 2400は小林正樹『人間の条件』を論じる。
- [Vol.3 大嘗祭の麁服は阿波忌部の布　古語拾遺から大正の復活まで](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-3.md): 大嘗祭の麁服（アラタエ）は古語拾遺が記す阿波忌部の木綿・麻の織布で、徳島からの奉献は大正天皇即位時に県事業として復活した。思想の森はドゥーギンの多極主義、KINEMA 2400は検閲の空白が生んだ1950年代の日本映画黄金期を論じる。
- [Vol.2 古代の大麻は植物を指す語ではなく行為の名　知里真志保と鳥浜貝塚](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-2.md): 知里真志保に従えば、古代人は物ではなく行為に名を付けたため、大麻や苧麻（カラムシ）、阿波忌部の麁服（アラタエ）も行為の名として見直す必要がある。思想の森は大阪府のインバウンド依存脱却、KINEMA 2400は『東京物語』など入門三作を扱う。
- [Vol.1 思想とは思考の地盤を転移させる技術　文明開化という病を越える](https://takahiromitsui.com/mail-magazine/vol-1.md): 近代を終わらせるには新しい考えを足すのではなく、自らの心から思考の地盤そのものを転移させるしかなく、その力こそが思想である。国つ神計画研究所は縄文土器の五大圏域と来訪神（まれびと）の原型、KINEMA 2400は万葉集と日本映画を論じる。

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