Entries from 2016-01-01 to 1 year
On December the 17th, I climbed Mt. Hangokuyama（半国山）as the last mountain hiking this year. Kameoka basin was not coverd with fog（丹波霧） this time. This is Jizo (a statue of Khitigarbha-bodhisattva) at the entrance of the trail. Tra…
On December the 14th, I appreciated Nogaku sponsored by Kyoto University （京都大学能楽鑑賞会）in Kyoto Kanze-Kaikan（京都観世会館）. It was for free for people belong to Kyoto University and there were many students coming around. I think…
I will explain my manuscript submitted, named “Rigid geometry solves “curse of dimensionality” effects: an application to proteomics.” The draft is available as doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/094391 in bioRxiv. To evaluate physiological stat…
I will explain my manuscript under review for the moment. It is based on a field work of quadrats in Izu peninsula of Japan (sorry the link is only in Japanese). The draft is available as arXiv:1603.00959[q-bio.PE]. The fundamental idea of…
On December the 3rd, I climbed Mt. Gyojayama（行者山）. It is a sacred place originated by Ennogyoja（役行者）, a famous Japanese ascetic and mystic. The mountain is on the west wide of Kameoka basin（亀岡盆地）. The place was covered by f…
On November the 12th, I climbed Mt. Ushimatsuyama（牛松山）. It is in Tanba district（丹波）. It has another name, Tanba-Fuji（丹波富士）. In the morning, Kameoka basin（亀岡盆地）was covered by fog（丹波霧）. This place is under construct…
On October the 30th 2016, I climbed Mt. Mizuiyama（水井山）. It is on the north line of Mt. Hieizan（比叡山）, accompanied with Mt. Daibisan（大尾山） and Mt. Yokotakayama（横高山）. At the foot of mountains there is Sanzenin（三千院）, or…
I have read a Japanese book named “Inquiry about Truth（真理の探究）”, which is written by Shizuka Sasaki（佐々木閑）and Hiroshi Ooguri（大栗博司）. They are famous researchers regarding Buddhism and theoretical physics, respectively. The …
On November the 27th, I watched the movie called “The Childhood of a Leader”. It was rainy, doomy and gloomy day and was good for watching such a kind of movie. It was about childhood of a fictional fascist leader in the 20th century, and …
On November the 23rd, I watched an animated movie called “Your Name（君の名は。）”. This is a sentimental movie, which finally ended up in happiness. The main characters are Mitsuha Miyamizu and Taki Tachibana, who are high school girl and…
Today I watched a European old-fashioned movie called “The Dust of Time”, which was directed by Theo Angelopoulos and is starring Willem Dafoe. A slight knowledge of German and Russian stimulates the impression of this movie. It is a ficti…
On November the 13th 2016, I watched an animated movie called “In This Corner of the World（この世界の片隅に）”. The audience was a variety of people. This story was originally written by Fumiyo Kono（こうの史代）as manga (sorry, the link …
Today I completed a Japanese famous manga called “Itihāsa”. It is a mighty, magical and spiritual fantasy (science fiction) of ancient Japan which describes the conflict among Ashins（亞神）and Ishins（威神）, gods/goddesses of good and ba…
On October the 23rd 2016, I watched The 58th Kyoto Kanze Noh, a medieval style traditional play of Japan, known as “noh-gaku”（能楽）. It consists of tragedic “noh”（能） and comical “kyogen”（狂言）. For detail, please see the link (sorry…
On October the 22nd 2016, I watched a movie called “The Man Who Knew Infinity”, which memorizes an Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920). It describes what would happen if people from different cultures meet each other. Ther…
