the qualia journal

The great novel "Sanshiro" ends thus. --------- Yoshiro moved closer to Sanshiro. "How do you like 'Woman in Forest?'...

Drank with my best friends until late at night. Had an early morning, but simply had to stay. There are nights like this when you simply wan...

During the course of my life, I sometimes search for dissonance. Consonances are surely beautiful. To drink a good white wine in a sunlit ro...

To encounter new things, you often need to see things in the periphery. The central vision captures things of interest as you understand it ...

Take the starry night by Vincent van Gogh, for example. This oil painting, painted in 1889, strikes one with a vivid impression. However, Go...

When you watch classic films shot in Japan's Showa era like Akira Kurosawa's "High and Low", you are surprised by the swif...

In Yasujiro Ozu's film "Early Summer" ("Bakushu"), there is a surprise scene where Noriko (played by Setsuko Hara) a...

As a kid I used to stay in the blanket, especially on a cold morning. I would wrap myself entirely in the warm cloth, with only my head stic...

I feel as if I am in a period of inner transformation. I try to do things that have not been possible so far, and shy away from things that ...

I love the Beatles. The definition of my heaven is when I drive in the U.K. countryside, listening to a Beatles album, preferably St. Pepper...

I had several dialogues with the artist Shusaku Arakawa in 2006, including one television shoot. The location for the TV dialogue was in th...

It is interesting that intellectuals who are not ostensibly religious are drawn to the life of Jesus Christ. Oscar Wilde, whose life on the ...

Sanshiro is one of my beloved novels by Soseki Natsume. As I was transferring data into my new notebook computer, I had some time, and was r...

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People have this idea that autobiographies are written by people who have "done it", whose merits and achievements have been more ...

When I was a kid, one of the things that I admired was "guts". It was in part influenced by pieces of the Japanese manga. For exam...

Although less than 1% of Japanese are Christians, the custom of Christmas festivities and present givings are avidly followed here, especial...

Due to the increase of comment spams, the comments to this blog are now moderated. They would appear after I review and approve them. Thank ...

One is naturally shy of exhibiting one's weakness. It might be a point of attack for the enemy, making us vulnerable in the world when a...

While I was studying in Cambridge, I was invited to my mentor Horace Barlow's Xmas party once. It was a small and cozy party, with Horac...