the qualia journal

The performance of Tristan und Isolde, conducted by Peter Schneider and directed by Christoph Marthaler (Bayreuth Festspiele, on 13th August...

On 13th August 2009, I attended a performance at the Bayreuth Festspiele for the first time in my life. It was Tristan und Isolde.

So I have come to Munich, in translation to Bayreuth. I have visited Munich many times. Whenever I can, I listen to operas, preferably Wagne...

Lands in Tokyo, like in any cotemporary city of big lights, are heavily utilized. It was a rare occasion that a space near my house, after t...

This summer, within a few days, I would be traveling to Bayreuth for the first time in my life. I will be listening to the performances of T...

When the onceness of life touches us, tears drop from the eyes. Yesterday, there was a wedding party. Shinichi Nozawa, a Ph.D student in my...

NHK is the national public broadcasting organization in Japan. I host, with Ms. Miki Sumiyoshi , "The Professionals" program broa...

I was in the car on the way to the conference site in Saga . We have just been to the old Saga castle site. As we left the Saga Castle Hist...

"El Sur" by the Spanish director Victor Erice is one of my all-time favorite films. In it, el sur ("the south") is depic...

Some days ago, I went to the Nasu district, where the Nasu Imperial Villa is located. It is a favorite summer retreat for the Japanese, as d...

Boybu (wind wall) is a typical Japanese style of art, and many excellent specimens are known. Of them, the Jitsugetsu Sansui-zu Byobu (...

When I was 16, the senior high school teacher gave us a booklet titled "Background to Britain". We were to read it during the summ...

Several days I go, I made a comment on the internet service twitter. Since then, some people have told me their opinions about twitter, as I...

I chatted with my best friend　 Takashi Ikegami in the Omotesando area in Tokyo. The dialogue was held for the philosophy and poetry magazin...

The human bran is attracted to contingencies, the mixture of regular and random things. Contingencies are concerned with the border between ...

One of the apparent functions of the perception of one's will is to make one's own action predictable by the self. By the cognition ...

As I have repeatedly written in this space, I used to collect and study butterflies quite seriously when I was a kid. It meant that I had to...

Civilizations come in many forms. I traveled to the Island of Bali in February. On the last evening of my stay, there was a Legong dance sho...

I have been keeping the Japanese blog more or less regularly since 12 December, 1999. My webpage The Qualia Manifesto was initiated on 26...

I was traveling to Nara , the ancient capital of Japan. After searching for huge cedar trees in the mountain, I was strolling in the town ce...